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1  The king inquires into the state of England, which the author relates to him.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
2  From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
3  From Amsterdam I soon after set sail for England, in a small vessel belonging to that city.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
4  And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
5  I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance, and began to think of returning home to England.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
6  There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
7  I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did, from the last time I left England, to the moment he first discovered me.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
8  I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.
9  I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
10  I gave him two purses of two hundreds sprugs each, and promised, when we arrived in England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep big with young.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
11  Upon this point, I cannot forbear doing justice to the queen my mistress, and Glumdalclitch my nurse, whose persons were as sweet as those of any lady in England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
12  I took up a thimble filled with liquor, which Glumdalclitch had given me for a cup, and drank their health, I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it after the manner of fencers in England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
13  The short time I continued in England, I made a considerable profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others: and before I began my second voyage, I sold them for six hundred pounds.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
14  I likewise delivered up my watch, which the emperor was very curious to see, and commanded two of his tallest yeomen of the guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoulders, as draymen in England do a barrel of ale.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
15  I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
16  He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endeavours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
17  And yet I have seen the moral of my own behaviour very frequent in England since my return; where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
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