How To Use Laputa In A Sentence
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Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
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They utilize instead the services of a "Flapper" to hit them in the face with a bladder full of dried peas when another Laputan wishes to communicate something.
Erica Jong: Lost in Laputa
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Once Laputa checked me with his hand as I was going to speak, and in silence we crossed the kloof of a little stream.
Prester John
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It belongs to Utopia, you know; and they say that, although it is now on the level of the earth, it used once to be a flying island -- the same which was formerly known as Laputa, and which was first visited and described by Captain
Tales of Fantasy and Fact
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Having first championed them 10 years ago, the Barbican brings back Ghibli classics, from Laputa: Castle In The Sky and My Neighbour Totoro the best one for young viewers, right up to previews of their latest, Arrietty, a version of The Borrowers.
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He was a Christian minister called Laputa, and he was going among the tribes from Durban to the Zambesi as a roving evangelist.
Prester John
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Laputan, who passed his days in extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, could have reached such a height of delirium as to rave about the time when a man should paint his miniature by looking at a blank tablet, and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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The pirates in Laputa go through a similar transformation.
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'Did you ever come across a great big native parson called Laputa?
Prester John
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“Imagination, Fancy, and Invention” as desirable faculties in which the Laputan mathematicians (in spite of their love of music) were wholly lacking.
Collected Essays
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The new kindle from Amazon, like its several failed predecessors are Laputan biofuel technology and tailoring.
Contra kindle
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Wrapped up, like a Laputan, in intense thought, and possibly sometimes in no thought at all (which, I believe, is very often the case with absent people), he does not know his most intimate acquaintance by sight, or answers them as if he were at cross purposes.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Laputan tailors, which, though projected from the most refined geometrical data and the most profound calculations, he found to be the worst fit he ever put on his back.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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On the marshes of Iraq, three reports from Laputan Logic.
Archive 2006-03-01
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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.
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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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In Part III he names Imagination, Fancy, and Invention as desirable faculties in which the Laputan mathematicians (in spite of their love of music) were wholly lacking.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels
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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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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.
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From Mar 2004 - Dec 2006 I called Laputa my home and to tell you all the stories about this beautiful school in the crown of the world, the amazing experiences I had and all the lessons I learnt from these kids aged 6-16 would be a blog on its own.
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Castle in the Sky features plenty of steam-powered flight and follows the quest of two children to find a ruined sky kingdom known as Laputa while combating the evil Muska, who wants the ancient civilization's secrets for his own greed and power.
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