Laputa
[luh-pyoo-tuh]
- an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
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Laputa must have disapproved, for Henriques' voice grew high.
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Laputa strode down the hall, with Henriques limping behind him.
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Once more we were sitting on the ground, all except Laputa and the Keeper.
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The priest's lips moved as if in prayer: of Laputa I saw only the back, and his head was bowed.
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Laputa had gone, and would return sooner or later with Henriques.
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