Sample sentences for GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

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Swift's satire written as a journal of fantastic travels that leave Gulliver dissatisfied with his own society (1726)

"I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels!
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

"It's like Gulliver's Travels," Colonel Van Riper says.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
There's a book over there on the table, Gulliver's Travels.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
Now we were working on Gulliver's Travels.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
I would disappear inside whole worlds comprised of Gulliver's Travels, Shane, and books by Beverly Cleary.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word BOOK acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
The author of Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables; other students urged less drastic ways of curbing population — none of which made the slightest difference.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
If any reader, therefore, should say that the book is "autobiographical" the writer has no answer for him: it seems to him that all serious work in fiction is autobiographical— that, for instance, a more autobiographical work than "Gulliver's Travels" cannot easily be imagined.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
That I was Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels.
Beatrice Sparks -- It Happened to Nancy
I tell her I had to read A Modest Proposal from the back of Gulliver's Travels and she says, That's all right, 'tis only a children's book.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
I took a deep breath, shook my head, and plunged back into Gulliver's Travels.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
Flowers so bitsy and fragile and perfect that it almost made me feel like I was living in Gulliver's Travels, with me the giant and them the normal size.
Beatrice Sparks -- It Happened to Nancy
I wait down the street till the woman next door goes in, I climb in Mr. Timoney's window for Gulliver's Travels and walk miles to the City Home so that he won't miss his reading.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick's British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver's Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
...of perception of a single thing, the whole background of color, warmth, odor, sound, taste established itself, so that later, the breath of hot dandelion brought back the grass-warm banks of Spring, a day, a place, the rustling of young leaves, or the page of a book, the thin exotic smell of tangerine, the wintry bite of great apples; or, as with Gulliver's Travels, a bright windy day in March, the spurting moments of warmth, the drip and reek of the earth-thaw, the feel of the fire.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel

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