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Alice wishes several times in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but she doesn't use the word in quite the same way as we understand it today. She isn't attempting to make magical wishes, but uses the word more to indicate something she wants.
Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me!
There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might
catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know.
Oh, how I wish I could shut
up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to
begin.
I do wish they would put their heads down!
I am so very tired of being all alone here!
I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam
about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for
it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
And yet I wish I could show you
our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you
could only see her.
I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!' said Alice
aloud, addressing nobody in particular.
And oh, I wish you
could see her after the birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as
soon as look at it!
I wish I hadn't mentioned Dinah!' she said to herself in
a melancholy tone. 'Nobody seems to like her, down
here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the world!
'...I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much!'
Alas! it was too late to wish that!
I almost wish I
hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole-and yet-and yet-
it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
As for pulling me out of the
window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to
stay in here any longer!
I wish the creatures
wouldn't be so easily offended!
I wish you wouldn't
keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one
quite giddy.
I almost wish I'd gone to
see the Hatter instead!
...and barley-sugar and such
things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish
people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about
it, you know-
'I wish they'd get the trial done,'
she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!'
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