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1  He came to dine with our horse, who received him with great civility.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
2  This the master horse observed by my behaviour, and therefore sent the Yahoo back to his kennel.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
3  The master horse ordered a sorrel nag, one of his servants, to untie the largest of these animals, and take him into the yard.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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4  The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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5  They dined in the best room, and had oats boiled in milk for the second course, which the old horse ate warm, but the rest cold.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
6  When dinner was done, the master horse took me aside, and by signs and words made me understand the concern he was in that I had nothing to eat.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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7  But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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8  The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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9  The horse neighed three or four times, and I waited to hear some answers in a human voice, but I heard no other returns than in the same dialect, only one or two a little shriller than his.
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10  The horse started a little, when he came near me, but soon recovering himself, looked full in my face with manifest tokens of wonder; he viewed my hands and feet, walking round me several times.
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11  In the middle was a large rack, with angles answering to every partition of the manger; so that each horse and mare ate their own hay, and their own mash of oats and milk, with much decency and regularity.
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12  Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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13  We stood gazing at each other for some time; at last I took the boldness to reach my hand towards his neck with a design to stroke it, using the common style and whistle of jockeys, when they are going to handle a strange horse.
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14  Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.
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15  But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.
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16  But I was soon better informed, to my everlasting mortification; for the horse, beckoning to me with his head, and repeating the hhuun, hhuun, as he did upon the road, which I understood was to attend him, led me out into a kind of court, where was another building, at some distance from the house.
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17  The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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