Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Chapter 7 Page 10

Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.’

‘Does — the one — that wins — get the crown?’ she asked, as well as she could, for the run was putting her quite out of breath.

‘Dear me, no!’ said the King. ‘What an idea!’

‘Would you — be good enough,’ Alice panted out, after running a little further, ‘to stop a minute — just to get — one’s breath again?’

‘I’m good enough,’ the King said, ‘only I’m not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!’

Alice had no more breath