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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including ... - Page 16
by Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784
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Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and, at the same time, with a violent pull, which...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and, at the same time, with a violent pull, which...
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Prose

1826 - 450 pages
...out the pegs that faflenfd my left arm to the ground ; lor, by lifting it up to my face, Idifcovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the...the firings that tied down my hair on the left fide, fo that I was juft able to turn my head about two inches. Bat the creatures ran off a fecond time,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and, at the same time, with a violent pull, which...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts

Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...(Philostratus thinks) to Euristheues." tune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave...
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A voyage to Lilliput by Lemuel Gulliver, with a sketch of the life of Swift

Jonathan Swift - 1859 - 152 pages
...struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave...
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The Western Monthly, Volume 3

Francis Fisher Browne - 1870 - 536 pages
...Struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground — for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me; and at the same time, with a violent pull which gave...
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The Lakeside Monthly, Volume 3

Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 pages
...Struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground — for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken (o bind me; and at the same time, with a violent pull which gave...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...(Pbilostratus thinks; >o Euristhencs." tune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground ; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and at the same time with a violent pull, which gave...
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The Young scholar, Volume 1

1872 - 692 pages
...struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground; for, by lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to bind me, and, at the same time, with a violent pull, which...
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