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1  She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
2  She was very good-natured, and not above forty feet high, being little for her age.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
3  It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
4  But my little nurse ran to my relief, and took me out, after I had swallowed above a quart of cream.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
5  His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in his stables: they are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
6  Neither did they at all scruple, while I was by, to discharge what they had drank, to the quantity of at least two hogsheads, in a vessel that held above three tuns.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
7  We made easy journeys, of not above seven or eight score miles a-day; for Glumdalclitch, on purpose to spare me, complained she was tired with the trotting of the horse.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
8  I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as far as I travelled in it, which was not above two thousand miles round Lorbrulgrud, the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
9  They are expressed in the most plain and simple terms, wherein those people are not mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation: and to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
10  I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced to move with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were sometimes not above a foot distant, so that I could hardly squeeze my body betwixt them.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
11  It was reckoned that above a hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the town upon the same errand; and, in spite of my guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thousand at several times, who mounted my body by the help of ladders.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
12  I slept about two hours, and dreamt I was at home with my wife and children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked, and found myself alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred feet wide, and above two hundred high, lying in a bed twenty yards wide.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
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13  I guessed his meaning, and my good fortune gave me so much presence of mind, that I resolved not to struggle in the least as he held me in the air above sixty feet from the ground, although he grievously pinched my sides, for fear I should slip through his fingers.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
14  He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left hand, which he placed flat on the ground with the palm upward, making me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a foot in thickness.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
15  But this appeared extremely difficult: for the spinet was near sixty feet long, each key being almost a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke with my fist, which would be too great a labour, and to no purpose.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
16  In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and requiring a strong hand to lift them: the other cell contained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
17  I took up twenty waiters in my hand, and placed them on the table: a hundred more attended below on the ground, some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other liquors slung on their shoulders; all which the waiters above drew up, as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner, by certain cords, as we draw the bucket up a well in Europe.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
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