Struldbrugs

For, as we remember, in the realm of Laputa, he found a certain number of both sexes (about eleven hundred) who were called Struldbrugs, or

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

He was not yet the oldest living member of the Struldbrugs 'Club, but he was getting on, getting on.

Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

Because of the decrepit state of many Struldbrugs, the club phone booths had been made large enough for travel chairs -- barely.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

The Struldbrugs 'Club is not the only club with a lower age limit on its members.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

He sat in the Struldbrugs 'reading room and thought about Greenberg.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

Naturally the Struldbrugs 'autodocs were the best in the world.

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

Here, too, in his journey to Luggnagg, he introduces the sad and revolting picture of the Struldbrugs, those human beings who live on, losing all their power and becoming hideously old.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

In the first voyage, that to the Lilliputians, the tone is one mainly of humorous irony; but in such passages as the hideous description of the _Struldbrugs_ in the third voyage the cynical contempt is unspeakably painful, and from the distorted libel on mankind in the _Yahoos_ of the fourth voyage a reader recoils in indignant disgust.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Swift's Struldbrugs seems to me not more horrible than that of

Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

The fate of Swift's Struldbrugs seems to me not more horrible than that of a mind imprisoned for ever within the flammantia moenia of inextinguishable memories.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900