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1  The author gives some account of himself and family.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
2  The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
3  She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and afterwards the whole kingdom.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
4  But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
5  I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife and family in good health.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
6  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
7  For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.
8  The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
9  I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
10  I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
11  The emperor and royal family came out of the palace; I lay down on my face to kiss his hand, which he very graciously gave me: so did the empress and young princes of the blood.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
12  I pointed to every thing, and inquired the name of it, which I wrote down in my journal-book when I was alone, and corrected my bad accent by desiring those of the family to pronounce it often.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
13  He was most perplexed about my clothes, reasoning sometimes with himself, whether they were a part of my body: for I never pulled them off till the family were asleep, and got them on before they waked in the morning.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
14  Some natural necessities required me to get down; I durst not presume to call; and if I had, it would have been in vain, with such a voice as mine, at so great a distance from the room where I lay to the kitchen where the family kept.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
15  My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the parish.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
16  He was an honest man, and a good sailor, but a little too positive in his own opinions, which was the cause of his destruction, as it has been with several others; for if he had followed my advice, he might have been safe at home with his family at this time, as well as myself.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
17  I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III.
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