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1  But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
2  Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
3  When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet more in pain, because I was under water to my neck.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V.
4  I was at the pains of making ropes and cables, by twisting ten, twenty, or thirty of the thickest and strongest of theirs.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
5  I plainly observed that their language expressed the passions very well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
6  But he was at last in pain at my long absence; and after consulting with the treasurer and the rest of that cabal, a person of quality was dispatched with the copy of the articles against me.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII.
7  It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions, to give my master a right idea of what I spoke; for their language does not abound in variety of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV.
8  The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most painful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII.
9  But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI.
10  The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he ran.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
11  When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a groaning with grief and pain; and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
12  His majesty gave orders, upon pain of death, that every soldier in his march should observe the strictest decency with regard to my person; which however could not prevent some of the younger officers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me: and, to confess the truth, my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition, that they afforded some opportunities for laughter and admiration.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III.