 | Jonathan Swift - 1903 - 440 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting_Bun-beam8 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...Sunbeams, — 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, SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Laputa, v Sunday, — In spite of all hypocrisy can spin, As... | |
 | 1907 - 264 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 288 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate." In this voyage the Struldbrugs are described. They are a race of men who, after the loss of every faculty... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials, hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in...governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable rate." In this voyage the Struldbrugs are described. They are a race of men who, after the loss of every faculty... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1915 - 278 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 ' (Gulliver's Voyage to Laputa, chap. v). PAGE 103. 18. pokerish : an American slang word, meaning... | |
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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. 
