Brobdingnag
the region in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels where everything was of enormous size.
Historical Examples
Chimney-Pot Papers Charles S. Brooks
The Parent’s Assistant Maria Edgeworth
Swift Leslie Stephen
Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. John Uri Lloyd
White Lies Charles Reade
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Swift Leslie Stephen
French Classics William Cleaver Wilkinson
Swift Leslie Stephen
The Parent’s Assistant Maria Edgeworth
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