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1  The Yahoos, a strange sort of animal, described.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
2  The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
3  He was sure no Houyhnhnm alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust Yahoos to manage it.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
4  About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
5  I expected every moment that my master would accuse the Yahoos of those unnatural appetites in both sexes, so common among us.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
6  My master likewise mentioned another quality which his servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
7  Then as to the claws upon your feet before and behind, they are so short and tender, that one of our Yahoos would drive a dozen of yours before him.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V.
8  By what I could discover, the Yahoos appear to be the most unteachable of all animals: their capacity never reaching higher than to draw or carry burdens.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
9  When it grew towards evening, the master horse ordered a place for me to lodge in; it was but six yards from the house and separated from the stable of the Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
10  That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
11  I had hitherto concealed the secret of my dress, in order to distinguish myself, as much as possible, from that cursed race of Yahoos; but now I found it in vain to do so any longer.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
12  At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighbourhoods, without any visible cause; those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
13  Besides, I considered that my clothes and shoes would soon wear out, which already were in a declining condition, and must be supplied by some contrivance from the hides of Yahoos, or other brutes; whereby the whole secret would be known.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
14  He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the Yahoos in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
15  The reader may be disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to give so free a representation of my own species, among a race of mortals who are already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity between me and their Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
16  As I ought to have understood human nature much better than I supposed it possible for my master to do, so it was easy to apply the character he gave of the Yahoos to myself and my countrymen; and I believed I could yet make further discoveries, from my own observation.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
17  I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill-treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
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