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"THAT BEREAVED AND MISERABLE MAN, IN HIS ROOM IN THE MIDNIGHT

"I LAY ALL THIS WHILE, AS THE READER MAY BELIEVE, IN GREAT UNEASINESS" "PRODUCING HIS CREDENTIALS UNDER THE SIGNET ROYAL"

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"THE NEXT MORNING, AT SUNRISE, WE CONTINUED OUR MARCH"
"PUSHING THEM FORWARD WITH THE BUTT-ENDS OF THEIR PIKES INTO MY REACH"
"THESE GENTLEMEN MADE AN EXACT INVENTORY OF EVERYTHING THEY SAW
"HE ASKED THE OPINIONS OF HIS LEARNED MEN ABOUT IT"
THE DIVERSIONS OF THE COURT OF LILLIPUT.

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“HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY WAS PLEASED TO SMILE VERY GRACIOUSLY UPON ME"

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“I TOOK UP THE KNOTTED END OF THE CABLES, TO WHICH MY HOOKS WERE TIED” "AND CREATED ME A NARDAC UPON THE SPOT"

"THERE ARRIVED A SOLEMN EMBASSY FROM BLEFUSCU, WITH HUMBLE offers of A PEACE"

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"THREE HUNDRED TAILORS WERE EMPLOYED TO MAKE ME CLOTHES
"HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY DESIRED THAT HIMSELF AND HIS ROYAL CONSORT MIGHT
HAVE THE HAPPINESS OF DINING WITH ME"
"THE TREASURER AND ADMIRAL INSISTED THAT YOU SHOULD BE PUT TO THE MOST
PAINFUL AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH".

"THIS PROPOSAL WAS RECEIVED WITH THE UTMOST DISAPPROBATION"

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"I LAY ON THE GROUND TO KISS HIS MAJESTY AND THE EMPRESS'S HANDS"
"A MIGHTY CONCOURSE OF PEOPLE APPEARED UPON MY ARRIVAL, FULL OF WONDER

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AT THE SIGHT OF SO PRODIGIOUS A VESSEL"

"I SET SAIL AT SIX IN THE MORNING"

"I TOOK MY BLACK CATTLE AND SHEEP OUT OF MY POCKET"

"I OBSERVED A HUGE CREATURE WALKING AFTER THEM IN THE SEA "WHEREUPON THE HUGE CREATURE TROD SHORT"

"I ROSE IN A FRIGHT, AND DREW OUT MY HANGER TO DEFEND MYSELF". “I CALLED HER MY GLUMDALCLITCH, OR LITTLE NURSE”

"I DREW OUT MY HANGER, AND FLOURISHED WITH IT AFTER THE MANNER OF FENCERS IN ENGLAND"

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"THIS GRACIOUS PRINCESS HELD OUT HER LITTLE FINGER TOWARDS ME"
"SHE TOOK ME IN HER OWN HAND, AND CARRIED ME TO THE KING".
"THEY CONCLUDED UNANIMOUSLY THAT I WAS ONLY 'RELPLUM SCALCATH'"
"I COULD ONLY REVENGE MYSELF BY CALLING HIM BROTHER

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"THE SMALLER BIRDS DID NOT APPEAR TO BE AT ALL AFRAID OF ME "THE LADIES GAVE ME A GALE WITH THEIR FANS".

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"REACHING ONE OF HIS PAWS IN AT THE DOOR, AS A CAT DOES WHEN SHE PLAYS

WITH A MOUSE "

"I COULD HARDLY DISTINGUISH THE TUNES"

"IT WAS THE MOST VIOLENT EXERCISE THAT I EVER UNDERWENT'

“MY LITTLE Friend GrildriG, YOU HAVE MADE A MOST ADMIRABLE PANEGYRIC UPON YOUR COUNTRY"

"I HAVE PERUSED MANY OF THEIR BOOKS, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON HISTORY AND

"SHE HAD SOME FOREBODING OF WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN

"I OBSERVED THE NOISE AND FLUTTER OF WINGS"
"SOMEBODY CALLING THROUGH THE HOLE WITH A LOUD VOICE, IN THE ENGLISH

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"I COULD FORCE NOTHING ON HIM BUT A FOOTMAN'S TOOTH
"MY DAUGHTER KNEELED TO ASK MY BLESSING, BUT I COULD NOT SEE HER"

A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA.

"I GOT DOWN INTO THE CANOE, WHILE THE DUTCHMAN LOADED ME WITH

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I PERCEIVED A VAST OPAQUE BODY BETWEEN ME AND THE SUN"

"HIS MAJESTY WAS THEN DEEP IN A PROBLEM"

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"HE BROUGHT MY CLOTHES VERY ILL MADE, AND QUITE OUT OF SHAPE"
"BY MEANS OF THIS LOADSTONE, THE ISLAND IS MADE TO RISE AND FALL"
"THEY SPEND THE GREATEST PART OF THEIR LIVES IN OBSERVING THE CELESTIAL
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"THE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS WALKED FAST, AND WERE GENERALLY IN RAGS" .

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"HE MADE ME OBSERVE THE SEVERAL METHODS USED BY FARMERS IN MANAGING THEIR LANDS"

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"HE CALLED ALOUD TO ME NOT TO DISTURB HIS WEBS"

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"A SCHEME FOR ENTIRELY ABOLISHING ALL WORDS WHATSOEVER"
"ATTENDED BY THEIR APOTHECARIES STORED WITH PROPER MEDICINES".
"IT SEEMS, INDEED, TO BE A WORK THAT REQUIRES SOME EXACTNESS"
"A NEW SET OF GHOSTS SERVED UP THE MEAT AND WAITED AT TABLE"
"I WAS STRUCK WITH A PROFOUND VENERATION AT THE SIGHT OF BRUTUS"
"A HELOT OF AGESILAUS MADE US A DISH OF SPARTAN BROTH"
“THEY ALL APPEARED WITH DEJECTED LOOKS, AND IN THE MEANEST HABITS”
“I HAVE SEEN A GREAT LORD WITH HIS MOUTH SO CRAMMED, THAT HE WAS NOT
ABLE TO SPEAK A WORD"

"HAPPY PEOPLE, WHO ENJOY SO MANY LIVING EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT VIRTUE!" "THEY WERE THE MOST MORTIFYING SIGHT I EVER BEHELD"

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"THIS ANIMAL SEEMED TO RECEIVE MY CIVILITIES WITH DISDAIN

"GENTLEMEN, IF YOU BE CONJURERS, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ANY LANGUAGE "I SAW A VERY COMELY MARE, TOGETHER WITH A COLT AND FOAL" "OUR COUNTENANCES DILIGENTLY COMPARED BOTH BY MASTER AND SERVANT" 285 "THEY LOOKED UPON IT AS A PRODIGY THAT A BRUTE ANIMAL SHOULD DISCOVER

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SUCH MARKS OF A RATIONAL CREATURE "

"HE TOOK UP ALL MY CLOTHES IN HIS PASTERN, ONE PIECE AFTER ANOTHER".
"USED TO ALL KIND OF DRUDGERY TILL THEY DIED "
"SINCE MONEY ALONE WAS ABLE TO PERFORM ALL THESE FEATS, OUR YAHOOS
THOUGHT THEY COULD NEVER HAVE ENOUGH OF IT TO SPEND'

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"I HAD WORKED TWO CHAIRS WITH MY KNIFE, THE SORREL NAG HELPING ME "I FELL TO IMITATE THEIR GAIT AND GESTURE"

"HE DID ME THE HONOUR TO RAISE IT GENTLY TO MY MOUTH"

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"ONE OF THE SEAMEN, IN PORTUGUESE, BID ME RISE, AND ASKED WHO I WAS" "THEY GIVE THE COUNTRY A NEW NAME; THEY TAKE FORMAL POSSESSION OF IT FOR THEIR KING"

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