The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 406
ce of A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. 367 that soporiferous medicine infused into my liq-uor. Fifteen hundred of the emperors largesthorses, each about four inches and a half high,were employed to draw me towards the metrop-olis, which, as I said, was half a mile distant. About four hours after we began our… … when I was asleep ; they climbed up into the en-gine, and advancing very softly to my face, one ofthem, an officer in the guards, put ths sharp endof his half-pike a good way up into my left nos-tril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently ; whereupon they stole off,…
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