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1  He travels up into the country.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
2  His first inducements to travel.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
3  She made me some general questions about my country and my travels, which I answered as distinctly, and in as few words as I could.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
4  And he appealed to me, whether in those countries I had travelled, as well as my own, I had not observed the same general disposition.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
5  The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
6  Upon the whole, I never beheld, in all my travels, so disagreeable an animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an antipathy.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I.
7  I know likewise, that writers of travels, like dictionary-makers, are sunk into oblivion by the weight and bulk of those who come last, and therefore lie uppermost.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
8  I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as far as I travelled in it, which was not above two thousand miles round Lorbrulgrud, the metropolis.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
9  It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful animals both at sea and land.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
10  Thus, gentle reader, I have given thee a faithful history of my travels for sixteen years and above seven months: wherein I have not been so studious of ornament as of truth.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
11  I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
12  He was pleased to show me many marks of favour, often did me the honour of a visit, desired to be informed in the affairs of Europe, the laws and customs, the manners and learning of the several countries where I had travelled.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV.
13  My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
14  And as I have been always told, and found true by experience in my travels, that flying or discovering fear before a fierce animal, is a certain way to make it pursue or attack you, so I resolved, in this dangerous juncture, to show no manner of concern.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
15  He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be set adrift, in that monstrous wooden chest.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
16  He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants with a turn of his finger; at which, to my great astonishment, they vanished in an instant, like visions in a dream when we awake on a sudden.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VII.
17  I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days; but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
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