| A | B |
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| "And worst of all, there's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." | Milo |
| "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going." | Whether Man |
| "Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way." | Whether Man |
| "That's why you're here. You weren't thinking, and you weren't paying attention either." | Lethargarians |
| "It's bad enough wasting time without killing it." | Tock |
| "Well money doesn't grow on trees.... Why not words?" | King's Cabinet |
| "Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education...." | Spelling Bee |
| "A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect." | Humbug |
| "I've never seen anyone so guilty." | Short Shrift |
| "How about 'I am'?" | Short Shrift |
| "You can get in a lot of trouble mixing up words or just not knowing how to spell them." | Milo |
| "...that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so." | Faintly Macabre |
| "For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often worse to use use too many." | Faintly Macabre |
| "Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and one is woof." | Rhyme & Reason |
| "I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my words." | Milo |
| "I most certainly should have eaten too little too slowly, or too much too slowly, or too little too quickly,...." | Humbug |
| "Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things." | Humbug |
| "With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places." | King Azaz |
| "Of course, there are a few of us whose feet never reach the ground no matter how old we get...." | Alec Bings |
| "In fact, I'm quite ordinary, but there are so many ordinary men that no one asks their opinion about anything." | The tallest midget |
| "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed." | Alec Bings |
| "You see what a dull place the world would be without color?" | Chroma |
| dusk | the time of day just before night falls; twilight |
| homely | having plain features; not good looking; unattractive |
| wretched | very unhappy; deeply distressed |
| feisty | energetic; eager; excitable |
| rascal | mischievious; playful person |
| pesky | troublesome; annoying |
| shingles | a thin piece of wood or other material, usually for a roof |
| bonnet | a hat close to the head on both sides and the back of the head |
| fetch | to get |
| rustle | to make a series of soft, fluttering sounds |
| dune | a mound, hill or ridge of sand that is heaped by the wind (or by people) |
| petticoat | a skirt or slip worn as an undergarment |
| treaded | to stay upright in swimming by moving your legs up and down; to move your feet one after the other |
| primly | very formal; neat or precise; proper |
| sly | sneaky; able to devise a trick |
| squall | to cry or scream loudly and harshly; a brief violent storm usually with rain or snow |
| pungent | sharp, stinging smell |
| eerie | strange, weird, frightening |
| peering | to look closely |
| scuttling | to scamper along |
