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1  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.
2  I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
3  My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of towardly parts for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her baby.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
4  Homer was the taller and comelier person of the two, walked very erect for one of his age, and his eyes were the most quick and piercing I ever beheld.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
5  This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
6  Glumdalclitch wrapped it up in her handkerchief, and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age usually are.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
7  Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
8  They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
9  When the girls are twelve years old, which among them is the marriageable age, their parents or guardians take them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
10  They are dressed by men till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendant, who are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial offices.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
11  That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
12  He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the other three who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other two stood one on each side to support him.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
13  When one of them is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand years past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
14  Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon distinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
15  But I was soon informed, both by conversation and reading their histories; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
16  If they can avoid casualties, they die only of old age, and are buried in the obscurest places that can be found, their friends and relations expressing neither joy nor grief at their departure; nor does the dying person discover the least regret that he is leaving the world, any more than if he were upon returning home from a visit to one of his neighbours.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
17  The heat I had contracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
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