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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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Travels of Lemuel Gulliver into several remote regions of the world.

Jonathan Swift - 1871 - 406 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 let out to warm the air in inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that in eight years more, he should be able to supply...
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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 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 <*..'ยป>bt, that in eight years more, he should be able tr supply the governor's gardens with sunshine,...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams 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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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 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 Laputa. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him...
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Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Volumes 8-10

Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1874 - 536 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 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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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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. Pt. iii. CA. v. Voyage to Laputa. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fcwer than five hundred rooms. DEAN SWIFT. 15 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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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 4; Volume 80

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from the Best British and American ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pages
...room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. warm the air in raw, inclement summers. He told me he did hot doubt in eight years more that he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

1877 - 362 pages
...Sunbeams. โ€” He had been eight years upon a project for extracting SUNREAMS out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. โ€” SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels. Sunless. โ€” How fast has brother followed brother, From suushine to...
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