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very interesting; or convincing — possibly leading to action
or more rarely: a force for action
or more rarely: a force for action
- And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Bigendian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (56% in)
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