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Though his interaction with the Lilliputians wasn't the strongest section, you would be hard pressed to find equally clever interplay of parody and originality.† (source)
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We live in two different dimensions, you and I. You came into my life like Gulliver entering the land of the Lilliputians.† (source)
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Monterrey's factories were terrifying in the enormity of scale, which made a man feel small and vulnerable like Lilliputians in a world of Gullivers.† (source)
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That's a war for military clicks and Lilliputians.† (source)
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'Oh, father!' exclaimed Jack, 'I hope they are Lilliputians!† (source)
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Arnold's photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel.† (source)
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'You must be content to give up the Lilliputians and accept penguins, my dear Jack,' said I. 'We have not before seen them in such numbers, but Ernest knocked one down, if you remember, soon after we landed.† (source)
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Some areas looked as though they had experienced the upheavals of Lilliputian volcanos.† (source)
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The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians.† (source)
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Tiny things?" and invited Jolene into the dining room to inspect the shelves of a whatnot on which were arranged assorted Lilliputian gewgaws-scissors, thimbles, crystal flower baskets, toy figurines, forks and knives.† (source)
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Some time after, asking a friend at court how they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty's mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant, and finding it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least 1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was necessary to support that number of Lilliputians.† (source)
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At night Thomas could hear his uneven footsteps like those of a giant in a bedroom of Lilliputian dimensions who could not help knocking over furniture.† (source)
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As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance.† (source)
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The others followed suit, and soon Max writhed and chuckled beneath the Lilliputian assault.† (source)
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In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as disown the authority under which he acts.† (source)
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Where they had been were now long, water-cloudy scoriations resembling the sporadic course of a lilliputian mowing machine.† (source)
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