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  • Jonathan Swift, often called Dean Swift, was famous as

    Fifty Famous People James Baldwin 1883

  • If you live in Livingston Village and would like to attend this event, please call Dean Swift on 417024 by Friday, November 28.

    icWestlothian 2008

  • Dean Swift, for his part not in Ravenna, not in Venezia, nor in Trieste, not even in Napoli, assented to the continuation of Elizaveta's otherwise tragic career, hopeful for a more betterer outcome.

    The Man from OBERIU strannikov 2012

  • Dean Swift wrote his book back in 1726 revised in 1735 as an acidic attack on his society.

    Gulliver's Travels Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • Previously when anyone raised the subject of eating babies, I thought of Dean Swift and felt intellectual.

    Ten Common Misconceptions about Atheists | Mind on Fire 2008

  • Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption.

    Representative Men 2006

  • “The rascal foiled me at capping verses,” Dean Swift said, “and won a tenpenny piece of me, plague take him!”

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • “The rascal foiled me at capping verses,” Dean Swift said, “and won a tenpenny piece of me, plague take him!”

    Burlesques 2006

  • Would Dean Swift if he had been had been as great Master of french as he was of English, have expressed himself as concisely as he has in English?

    John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966

  • Onward Christian mystic, making like Dean Swift, waxing belle-lettristic, when you lose your drift.

    Know-All Jones, D.A.N. 1966

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