England in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Forms of address:

1. [I] Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
   
2. [II] If you please, sir—
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3. [VIII] So you see, Miss
   

Measures:

1. [I] However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high:
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2. [XII] — Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
   
3. [II] But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears,
   

Money:

1. [II] And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things — I can't remember half of them — and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
   
2. [V] By the use of this ointment — one shilling the box
   
3. [XI] — Write that down, — the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
   
4. [XII] — If any one of them can explain it, — said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him,) — I'll give him sixpence.

Language:

1. [II] — cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English);
   
2. [II] — Perhaps it doesn't understand English, — thought Alice;
   
3. [III] — Speak English! — said the Eaglet.
   
4. [VII] Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
   

Miscellanea:

1. [II] (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)
   
2. [II] — I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.
   
3. [III] the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him
   
4. [X] The further off from England the nearer is to France