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1 " The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on the slates. " What are they doing?" Alice whispered to the Gryphon. " They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun." " They're putting down their names," the Gryphon whispered in reply, " for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial. "
2 " [M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street. "
3 " I found serenity in the towers, especially the highest, even in the midst of winter. The crows also enjoyed the lofts, and I habitually fed them.Often I held conference with the grotesques lining the summit. The gryphon was perhaps my favourite. I’d regularly sat beside them when feeling pensive, even before James’s death, one leg dangling precariously over the edge "
― Hazel Butler , Chasing Azrael (Deathly Insanity #1)
4 " And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day. "
― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
