Brobdingnag
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Jonathan Swift’s Dr. Lemuel Gulliver sails to Lilliput, land of pygmies, and Brobdingnag, land of giants.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020
And, like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Brobdingnag, he is interrogated about his culture by his hosts so intensively that he begins to doubt his own human identity.
From Nature • Jul. 8, 2019
Gulliver is attacked by giant wasps in Brobdingnag.
From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017
Later he again blunders off course and winds up in Brobdingnag, land of the giants, where he is reduced to the status of a performing monkey at the court.
From Slate • Jun. 21, 2013
I had thought they were adults and maybe citizens of Brobdingnag, at least.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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