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In an agreeable little article she has devoted to the subject, she describes how from the crudest beginnings they succeeded in elaborating their art to a high pitch; the répertoire of their lilliputian theater including more than twenty plays, their "company" over a hundred marionettes.
Having quenched the fire that was consuming the Fat Woman, he pushed his way through the crowd, with the stern command, "Stand aside here!" and fell upon the Lilliputian gladiators. "Break away!" roared Teddy, grasping each by the collar and giving him a violent tug. What was his surprise when both the little men suddenly turned upon him and started pushing and beating him.
They are noted for having the hind legs much longer than the fore ones in fact, being shaped very much like the kangaroos of which they might be termed Lilliputian varieties, were it not that they lack the pouch, which distinguishes these curious creatures. Like the kangaroos, they use their fore-feet only to rest upon.
"I only want to look at it in the Gough, you see, Paddy, an' how dare you give me such an answer, you big-headed dunce, you go off an' study it, you rascally Lilliputian off wid you, and don't let me see your ugly mug till you know it." "Now, gintlemen, for the Classics; and first for the Latinaarians Larry Cassidy, come up wid your Aisop.
It's that fascinating Lilliputian with a beard and electric bowels who stands in drug store windows and administers corn cure to his own toes with a smile. The professional window shopper is a vagabond at heart a loiterer by nature. Here is one gazing in a photographer's window to discover someone he knows.
But, truth to tell, these brooms have been stirring up dust from the gutters of passion and sin, and these lamps have been offending men's nostrils by their smoky stench ever since man knew himself. And they shall continue to do service in the same cause as long as human nature remains what it is. But Christ did not bring His faith on earth to be destroyed by the lilliputian efforts of man.
Never before had space impressed him so majestically. Rome was there, as a bird might see it, within the glance, as distinct as some geographical plan executed in relief. To think of it, such a past, such a history, so much grandeur, and Rome so dwarfed and contracted by distance! Houses as lilliputian and as pretty as toys; and the whole a mere mouldy speck upon the earth's face!
What does it signify that a lilliputian train passes over a viaduct amidst the abysses of the Apennines, or that a caravan laden with a nation's offerings creeps across the unresting sameness of the desert, or that a petty cloud of steam sweeps for an instant over the face of an Egyptian colossus immovably submitting to its slow burial beneath the sand?
Bruff's head was pressed close down to the floor, but he showed his teeth and uttered a growl like a lilliputian peal of thunder. "Quiet!" cried Mark, as Billy Widgeon struck an attitude with his fists doubled, ready for attack or defence. "Lor', if you was aboard our ship, wouldn't I heave you overboard fust chance!" cried the sailor. "What did you do to the dog?" said the captain angrily.
He gives us in a matter-of-fact chronicle style the marvelous happenings of Gulliver in Lilliputian land or in that of the Brobdingnagians. And in due season, after the long innings enjoyed by realism with its triumphs of analysis and superfaithful transcriptions of the average life of man, we shall behold the change of mood which welcomes back the older appeal of fiction.
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