Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

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struldbrug
Balnibarbi
Houyhnhnm
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struldbrug

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the immortals who inhabit Luggnagg, from Gulliver's Travels
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One day, in much good company, I was asked by a person of quality, “whether I had seen any of their struldbrugs, or immortals?” I said, “I had not;” and desired he would explain to me “what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature.”

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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