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1  I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
2  I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee-side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
3  This island was at a greater distance than I expected, and I did not reach it in less than five hours.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
4  I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
5  But I could see four or five men running in great haste, up the stairs, to the top of the island, who then disappeared.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
6  The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
7  The word, which I interpret the flying or floating island, is in the original Laputa, whereof I could never learn the true etymology.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
8  The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the north-east of Lilliput, from which it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred yards wide.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
9  His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
10  Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
11  But not being at that time in a disposition to philosophise upon this phenomenon, I rather chose to observe what course the island would take, because it seemed for awhile to stand still.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
12  But, not to trouble the reader with a particular account of my distresses, let it suffice, that on the fifth day I arrived at the last island in my sight, which lay south-south-east to the former.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
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13  Now, in the midst of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, almost as large and powerful as this of his majesty.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
14  The number of people increased, and, in less than half all hour, the island was moved and raised in such a manner, that the lowest gallery appeared in a parallel of less then a hundred yards distance from the height where I stood.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
15  It was necessary to give the reader this information, without which he would be at the same loss with me to understand the proceedings of these people, as they conducted me up the stairs to the top of the island, and from thence to the royal palace.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
16  I turned back, and perceived a vast opaque body between me and the sun moving forwards towards the island: it seemed to be about two miles high, and hid the sun six or seven minutes; but I did not observe the air to be much colder, or the sky more darkened, than if I had stood under the shade of a mountain.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
17  They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards the shore, which I accordingly did; and the flying island being raised to a convenient height, the verge directly over me, a chain was let down from the lowest gallery, with a seat fastened to the bottom, to which I fixed myself, and was drawn up by pulleys.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
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