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1  Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour and ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
2  Hundreds fell down as if they had been struck dead; and even the emperor, although he stood his ground, could not recover himself for some time.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
3  They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
4  I pointed to the dead rat, smiling, and making other signs to show I was not hurt; whereat she was extremely rejoiced, calling the maid to take up the dead rat with a pair of tongs, and throw it out of the window.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
5  Here we entered, and I saw three of those detestable creatures, which I first met after my landing, feeding upon roots, and the flesh of some animals, which I afterwards found to be that of asses and dogs, and now and then a cow, dead by accident or disease.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
6  My wife and family received me with great surprise and joy, because they concluded me certainly dead; but I must freely confess the sight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
7  By his skill in necromancy he has a power of calling whom he pleases from the dead, and commanding their service for twenty-four hours, but no longer; nor can he call the same persons up again in less than three months, except upon very extraordinary occasions.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
8  I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation; for those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people were ready to break down the doors to come in.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
9  I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck, I thoroughly despatched it.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
10  There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
11  Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-children; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.