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1  When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
2  This city stands upon almost two equal parts, on each side the river that passes through.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
3  Being one day abroad with my protector the sorrel nag, and the weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a river that was near.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
4  We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II.
5  But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
6  But the Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
7  There is not one seaport in the whole kingdom: and those parts of the coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and the sea generally so rough, that there is no venturing with the smallest of their boats; so that these people are wholly excluded from any commerce with the rest of the world.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.