Gulliver's Travels

How were the Wrong-doers executed in Luggnagg?

How were wrong doesd executed in luggnagg

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There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.

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Gulliver's Travels