 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...gunpowder, and 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 weather." The fourth voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, ji race of intelligent horses, who are... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 pages
...them he says he had been eight years upon a project of 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. He also visits the Strulbugs, who are old men that have outlived their usefulness and pleasure in life... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbers, which were tc be put into vials U2K P in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...endians. He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which wen; to lw put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in vaw inclement summers. (Jullivtr'a Trurtls. 1'nrt Hi. Chap. r. f'oyiiyr In I.nputa. It is a maxim,... | |
 | 1920 - 604 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." In the next room the traveller saw an explorer " at work to calcine ice into gunpowder. There was a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 354 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, he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 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, he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens with sunshine at a reasonable... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...3. L. 29. 10 He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which , as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw SWIFT— Gidliver's Travels. Pt. III. Ch. V. Voyage to Laputa. 11 We issued gorged with knowledge,... | |
 | 1922 - 260 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 said he did not doubt but that in eight years more he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens... | |
 | 1922 - 242 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 said he did not doubt but that in eight years more he should be able to supply the Governor's gardens... | |
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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. 
