 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...work, to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. Tt was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 494 pages
...asleep, I should certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds hie largest men-of-war, whereof some are nine feet long,...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1859 - 152 pages
...on wheels, for the carnage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pages
...wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - Castaways - 1865 - 414 pages
...asleep, I should certainly have awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my rage and strength as to have enabled me to break...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Castaways - 1871 - 406 pages
...wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood, raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Imaginary societies - 1879 - 208 pages
...plenty of meat and drink should be sent me, and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city. These people are most excellent mathematicians, and...at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood raised three inches from the ground, about seven feet long, and four wide, moving... | |
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He often builds his largest men-of-war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea. Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work... 
