struldbrug

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Is he a struldbrug, or a fairy, or only a ghost?

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  1. In Swift's “Gulliver's Travels” (“Voyage to Laputa”), one of a small class of immortals or deathless persons in “Luggnagg,” born with an indicative sign in the forehead, who after fourscore live on at public expense in the imbecility of extreme age.

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  • Is he a struldbrug, or a fairy, or only a ghost? —  Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
  • "That, if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own happiness, by understanding the difference between life and death, I would first resolve, by all arts and methods, whatsoever, to procure myself riches. —  Gulliver's Travels
  • "If a struldbrug happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it —  Gulliver's Travels
  • "that his friends and mine (so he thought fit to express himself) were very much pleased with the judicious remarks I had made on the great happiness and advantages of immortal life, and they were desirous to know, in a particular manner, what scheme of living I should have formed to myself, if it had fallen to my lot to have been born a struldbrug." —  Gulliver's Travels
 

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