Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World: In Words of One Syllable. With Fifty-four IllustrationsH. Altemus, 1896 - 215 páginas |
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... told , were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground . However , they soon returned ; and one of them , who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face , lifting up his hands and eyes by way of ...
... told , were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground . However , they soon returned ; and one of them , who ventured so far as to get a full sight of my face , lifting up his hands and eyes by way of ...
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... told ; for , while the whole operation was performing , I lay in a profound sleep , by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor . Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses , each about four inches and a half ...
... told ; for , while the whole operation was performing , I lay in a profound sleep , by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor . Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses , each about four inches and a half ...
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... told , for I could not see them . It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand ; and , in spite of my guards , I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand , at several ...
... told , for I could not see them . It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand ; and , in spite of my guards , I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand , at several ...
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... told us that , in his own country , his practice was to shave his beard with one of these , and to cut his meat with the other . There were two pockets which we could not enter ; these he called his fobs ; they were two large slits cut ...
... told us that , in his own country , his practice was to shave his beard with one of these , and to cut his meat with the other . There were two pockets which we could not enter ; these he called his fobs ; they were two large slits cut ...
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... told me that his majesty's mathematicians , having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant , and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one , they concluded , from the similarity of their bodies , that ...
... told me that his majesty's mathematicians , having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant , and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one , they concluded , from the similarity of their bodies , that ...
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