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Lilliput

noun
1.
A land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people.



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"Lilliput" Quotes from Famous Books



... were quickly recognized, because the eye had been commissioned to find them. On another occasion, not long afterward, I was hurriedly loading my gun in the October woods in hopes of overtaking a gray squirrel that was fast escaping through the treetops, when one of these lilliput frogs, the color of the fast-yellowing leaves, leaped near me. I saw him only out of the corner of my eye and yet bagged him, because I had already made ...
— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs


Words linked to "Lilliput" :   imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place


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