How To Use Gulliver In A Sentence
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Modeled as an old-fashioned hostelry, the £ 6 million project's shareholders include the glitterati of the art world such as Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and gallerist Sadie Coles, according to Mr. Gulliver, who admits "we are a little behind schedule, but just about hanging on to budget.
Not So Down and Out in London
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Look out for the playground where little people clamber over a giant outstretched Gulliver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gulliver is tossed into the water and the ship is wrecked.
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As Chapter III opens, Gulliver and his captors have become great friends.
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Gulliver's power was no longer neutralised and stalemated by another player of equivalent weight.
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Gulliver travels to the other side of the Academy where the advancers of speculative learning reside, and meets a professor who explains their method of learning.
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Gulliver agreed to let the soldiers search his pocket.
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Gulliver has set herself high standards and will be sure to make a resolute defence of her title and the Grand Slam.
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But the throb and like crash crash crash in my gulliver and the wanting to be sick and the terrible dry rasping thirstiness in my rot, all were worse than yesterday.
Where's the show?
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Some become intent on destroying Gulliver for making such a bold statement, while others support him vehemently.
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder.
Where's the show?
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Look out for the playground where little people clamber over a giant outstretched Gulliver.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, making with my shiny zoobies, I ittied a bit nearer to her, taking my time, and on the way I saw on a like sideboard a lovely little veshch, the love - liest malenky veshch any malchick fond of music like myself could ever hope to viddy with his own two glazzies, for it was like the gulliver and pletchoes of Ludwig van himself, what they call a bust, a like stone veshch with stone long hair and blind glazzies and the big flowing cravat.
Where's the show?
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Merry Bromberger and Serge Bromberger,Les 13 complots du 13 mai, ou la délivrance du Gulliver Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959, p.
The Sion Revelation
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As Gulliver returns to the land of men, it clearly emerges that he is seriously unhinged and a thoroughly changed character.
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Gulliver has set herself high standards and will be sure to make a resolute defence of her title and the Grand Slam.
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I read in Swift at the beginning of one of the Gulliver chapters: Having been condemned by nature and fortune to an active and even more a restless life And in this accursedly active and even more accursedly restless life, you can imagine in what terrible loneliness I am living.
The Great Escape
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Gulliver agreed to let the soldiers search his pocket.
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Gulliver's Travels is generally regarded as a terrific satirical novel written by the great English prose satirist Jonathan Swift.
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Look out for the playground where little people clamber over a giant outstretched Gulliver.
Times, Sunday Times
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I say "veracious" advisedly, as oftentimes, after having seen something extra strong in the Ananias-Sapphira-Munchausen-Gulliver-de-Rougemont epistolary line from some gentleman in khaki to the old folks at home, in a London or provincial paper, I feel that I must give up letter writing altogether, as by now those at home must have discovered that such effusions are often seven-eighths lies, and the remaining one-eighth truth, simply because the scribe's powers of invention have failed him, owing to the great strain.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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Captain Gulliver was a middle class, nautical man.
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How many times the height of a Lilliputian was the body of Gulliver as he lay on the ground?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
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HSBC's investment banking division suffered a fall in profits year-on-year but still had its second-best six months in history and is now hiring 400 more staff, its head Stuart Gulliver said.
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In their bedroom Sir Gulliver and his wife discussed his daughter.
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One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.”
The Catastrophist
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But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
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“I had the honour,” wrote Gulliver solemnly of Lilliput, “to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for, as all the world knows, he is only a Clumglum, a title inferior by one degree….”
Alexander Hamilton, American
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On a subsequent journey, Gulliver ends up in Laputa, a floating island inhabited by theoreticians and academics, who Gulliver soon discovered were an odd lot.
Available Affordable Electricity from Nuclear Energy
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In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Lemuel Gulliver voyages to a country called Laputa all of whose denizens are lost inside themselves.
Erica Jong: Lost in Laputa
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Everyone in the land is slowly coming to respect Gulliver's clemency and kindness.
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I was all dripping wet with this icy rain, so that my platties were no longer in the heighth of fashion but real miserable and like pathetic, and my luscious glory was a wet tangle cally mess all spread over my gulliver, and I was sure there were cuts and bruises all over my litso, and a couple of my zoobies sort of joggled loose when I touched them with my tongue or yahzick.
Where's the show?
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The post fell vacant following Stuart Gulliver's decision to take up a new academic position.
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Gulliver's own sailors declare a mutiny on his power and tie him up, conspiring against him, making him their prisoner.
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Davies arrived on stage at the poky Basement Bar like Gulliver, forcing a crouch so his huge arms could reach up to the perilously low ceiling.
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Another thought experiment (Kirk 1974b) involves a team of micro-Lilliputians who invade Gulliver™s head, disconnect his afferent and efferent nerves, monitor the inputs from his afferent nerves, and send outputs down his efferent nerves to produce behavior indistinguishable from what it would have been originally.
Zombies
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During one of the visits with the Maids of Honour, they women unclothed themselves in front of Gulliver.
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This thesis is intended to study the phenomenon of irony in two novels, Gulliver's Travels by the English writer Jonathan Swift and Flowers in the Mirror by the Chinese writer Li Ru-zhen.
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Read read, as if I am Gulliver together into a fantasy world of that.
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Gulliver also wonders why Laputan coats fit so badly until he visits a tailor and finds himself being fitted by quadrant and compass.
Contra kindle
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My paternoster is a combination of real paternosters in several universal languages from the last three or four centuries, including Esperanto, plus, if I remember correctly, a piece from Gulliver's Travels.
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So I was marched out and off down the corridor towards the Wing Chapel, tolchocked on the back and the gulliver all the way by one of the chassos, but in a very like yawny and bored manner.
Where's the show?
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In Book I, his ship is blown off course and Gulliver is shipwrecked.
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Roberts has clearly carefully read Gulliver's Travels and in this sequel he uses some of the same diction and language of Jonathan Swift, whilst simultaneously pursuing some of the same themes and ideas there is a lenghthy digression related to faeces, which is highly reminiscent of Swift's own use of dubious imagery in the original.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Gulliver's Travels - on camphone 'Cloverfield' meets 'A Cock And Bull Story'.
Ephemera 2009 (8) - The Mostly TV Edition
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And then the veck with her, who had a hat on his gulliver and had his litso like turned away from me, swivelled round to viddy the bolshy big clock they had on the wall in this mesto, and then I viddied who he was and then he viddied who I was.
Where's the show?
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Last week I reread Gulliver's Travels, it's for the chapter I'm writing for the book on breeding the chapter's about the idea of perfectibility, Swift to Godwin, with digressions on horse-breeding and cultural versus genetic perfectibility; Swift really is the most amazing writer, there's no one else like him.
Derek Mahon on Swift's poetry
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In Laputa Gulliver finds the wise men so wrapped up in their speculations as to be utter dotards in practical affairs.
