The Blue Fairy Book

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Longmans, Green, 1901 - 390 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 312 - I awaked it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir : for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were...
الصفحة 314 - ... marks of wonder and astonishment at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign that I wanted drink. They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and being a most ingenious people, they slung up with great dexterity one of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand and beat out the top.
الصفحة 321 - ... besides, our histories of six thousand moons, make no mention of any other regions, than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu. Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons past.
الصفحة 322 - I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.
الصفحة 311 - ... and the rock. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
الصفحة 322 - It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
الصفحة 313 - I afterwards learnt) understood me very well. He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders should be applied to my sides, on which above...
الصفحة 312 - In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward, over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when bending my eyes downward as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.
الصفحة 85 - he cried, ' is it not enough that I have done everything for you, but you must command me to bring my master and hang him up in the midst of this dome...
الصفحة 314 - After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank, from his imperial majesty. His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue. And producing his credentials under the signet royal...

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