The 3 worlds were our own, Liliput and Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Gulliver's Travels] Reference
How good old George, King of Brobdingnag, laughed at. From Wordnik.com. [John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character] Reference
But the impression produced upon the King of Brobdingnag by. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Gulliver's first adventures in Brobdingnag, the land of giants. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
“Er, this is my associate, from Brobdingnag,” Alex explained. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Lilliputia and Brobdingnag were in many ways the weakest sections. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
Had a man come from such a country as Brobdingnag he would have blundered so. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Do you remember how Gulliver lost his awe of the tremendous Brobdingnag ladies?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
Brobdingnag, by an exact reversal, everything is twelve times greater than among men. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Next, Brobdingnag, where a tiny Gulliver is humbled by people with bigger hearts and minds than his. From Wordnik.com. [Ted's Excellent Adventure] Reference
In Brobdingnag, on the other hand, the coarseness of mankind is exhibited by the magnifying process. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Swift readily changed feet to inches and inches to feet to keep his proportions exact. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC VOYAGES] Reference
Give Swift his world of Liliput and Brobdingnag respectively, and all, after that, is quite natural and probable. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
With Jonathan Swift as a guide he travels with Gulliver into no-man's land and visits Lilliput or Brobdingnag; or Oliver. From Wordnik.com. [The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII] Reference
Brobdingnag, ‘with the Institutions of my own beloved country, I could not refrain from tears of pride and exultation.’. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures from Italy] Reference
The thing is a freak of nature, a contradiction in terms, a monster of disproportion, like the nurse's breast in Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Poem] Reference
His voyage to Lilliput, his stay with the little people, and his adventures later among the giants of Brobdingnag, are classic. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
Brobdingnag observes how contemptible a thing human grandeur is, as represented by such a contemptible little creature as Gulliver. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
These days, there's nowhere left on this planet to halfway convincingly hide (and then discover) a Caprona, an Erewhon, a Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. ["If it takes my whole life, I won't break, I won't bend."] Reference
Voyages to Lilliput and to Brobdingnag were considered the best, and to them is to be attributed the greater part of the author's fame. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
Seemed to hum with the war-song of Brobdingnag bees. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne,] Reference
There may be such in my friend Mr. Swift's Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
Gulliver struggling with the molar of some vast Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [McTeague] Reference
And he pointed to one that might have been used in Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference
Etymology: Brobdingnag, imaginary country inhabited by giants in. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
Take him to Brobdingnag, and he is Grildrig, the little Manikin. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Brobdingnag lay on the northwest coast of the American continent. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
They looked like a collection of burglar's implements from the land of Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Great Sea Stories] Reference
But being nice to me was not enough; it sort of made me feel like Gulliver in Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Highways in Hiding] Reference
"It was a bit intimidating when we first arrived in Brobdingnag, as the people are so tall,". From Wordnik.com. [The Westmount Examiner] Reference
Judas-tree, like a Brobdingnag almond-tree, was in full flower; lilacs and laburnums in abundance. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1] Reference
Canterbury was almost as old and probably in worse repair than it is now, when Frisco was still Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
Brobdingnag, would you believe it, is a hump on the west coast of America and cannot be far from San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
It is much larger than a letter, unless, perhaps, one carries on a correspondence with a giant from Brobdingnag. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
In the middle of the explanation a melodious sound was heard in the air above them, like a swarm of Brobdingnag bees. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
How good old George, King of Brobdingnag, laughed at Gulliver-Boney, sailing about in his tank to make sport for their Majesties!. From Wordnik.com. [John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character] Reference
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