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1  I made her a low bow, took out my knife and fork, and fell to eat, which gave them exceeding delight.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
2  My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
3  The animosities between these two parties run so high, that they will neither eat, nor drink, nor talk with each other.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
4  This, the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following, eat nothing but bread and water.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
5  I took them all in my right hand, put five of them into my coat-pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: 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
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
7  I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
8  If their prey held out, they would eat till they were ready to burst; after which, nature had pointed out to them a certain root that gave them a general evacuation.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
9  During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
10  At last I desired something to eat out of my own canoe; but he ordered me a chicken, and some excellent wine, and then directed that I should be put to bed in a very clean cabin.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
11  There were three nags and two mares, not eating, but some of them sitting down upon their hams, which I very much wondered at; but wondered more to see the rest employed in domestic business; these seemed but ordinary cattle.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
12  They are bred up in the principles of honour, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of their country; they are always employed in some business, except in the times of eating and sleeping, which are very short, and two hours for diversions consisting of bodily exercises.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.