Lilliput
In Jonathan Swift's satirical novel, Gulliver's Travels, the land of Lilliput was occupied by very small people.Lilliput was also the name of a British arts magazine, founded in 1937 by a photo journalist named Stefan Lorant. It was sold shortly after to Tom Hulton, and then editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson (1940?) : it had a number of quite distinguished writers as contributors.
(more details to be added later... it was published until sometime in the 1950s IIRC)
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said: "Will you permit me?" He kissed her fingers courteously, and she
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you still regard me with--" he hesitated.
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voice of new resolve grown out of dead expectancy: "Your brother--is he
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denying, she pitied, too. "If I ever can, shall--shall I send for you
that was by your side; that where you are, Barbara--"
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"There is no power can alter what is come of Heaven," he said, smiling
spoke with a sweet calm: "God be with you, Louis."
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act. He felt the more so because Louis Bachelor had said no word about
put upon his honour, and he thought it a fine thing to stand on a
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