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" He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. "
The Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants - Page 231
by Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be out in phials hermetically sealed, and let rut to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight year* Vore, he should be able to supply the governor'* garden with sunshinei at a reasonable rate ;...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 9

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 pages
...been eight years upon a project of extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw and inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, in eight years more, he should be able to supply...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air,...raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt, in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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National Series of Selections for Reading; Adapted to the Standing ..., Volume 4

Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. 3. He told me he did not doubt, in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the governor's...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...raw, inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt, in eight years more, that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts

Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...same colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not <!«,&, that in eight years more, he should be able to, supply the governor's gardens with sunshine,...
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Gulliver's travels into several nations of the world. With a memoir of the ...

Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...same colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that iu eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World

Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pages
...same colour. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and...governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate ; f but he com* In this and the following chapter Swift indulges himself in the most unrestrained sallies...
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the...raw inclement summers. He told me he did not doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Brobdingnag. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. Ibid. Part iii. Ch. v. Voyage to Lafuta. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him...
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