Gulliver's voyage to Lilliput, with a Fr. tr. by [F.W.] Pirscher1859 |
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able astonishment attended bigness Blefuscu body bows and arrows cable chain CHAPTER clemency commanded country desired directed drawn Emperor of Lilliput engine eyes fastened favour feet high fifty first Five hundred flêches fleet found four four score gently gold good good behaviour great ground guards half hands head heard held held up his Majesty horse hours houses hundred yards immediately imperial palace inches inventory j'avais justaucorps l'Empereur ladders large largest league left leg left pocket left side length liberty little little men loose made Majesté make man-mountain metal Monsieur Gulliver my breast noise observed officers ordered out of order palace people pillar poche prodigious pulleys rabble ready right same manner scimitar searched sheep ship shrill sight silver Skyresh Bolgolam sleep small soon stood stopped strong strong hand take thing thought thousand tied time took two or three vaisseau wide window words
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Page 3 - He put this Engine to our Ears, which made an incessant Noise like that of a WaterMill. And we conjecture it is either some unknown Animal, or the God that he worships : But we are more inclined to the latter Opinion...
Page 12 - I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
Page 3 - He took them out of their cases, and told us that in his own country his practice was to shave his beard with one of these, and cut his meat with the other.
Page 2 - In his right waistcoat pocket, we found a prodigious bundle of white, thin substances, folded one over another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and marked with black figures ; which we humbly conceive to be writings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands. In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty long poles, resembling the...
Page 3 - ... hollow pillar of iron, about the length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber, larger than the pillar; and upon one side...
Page 2 - I had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little necessaries that were of no consequence to any but myself. In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse. These gentlemen, having pen, ink...