Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Much to their surprise, the audience liked them better as comedians than as singers.

Much to Podkayne's surprise, the normally very self-centered Clark contracts a severe case of puppy love.

Much to his surprise, Catiline was in attendance while Cicero denounced him before the Senate ; however, the senators adjacent to Catiline slowly moved away from him during the course of the speech, the first of Cicero's four Catiline Orations.

" Much to her surprise, the syndicate approved of the initial strips and offered her a twenty-year contract.

Much to his surprise, they overwhelmingly rejected his " voluntary " segregation plan and instead stated that they wanted only an integrated school system.

Much to their surprise, they found that RNase-P contained RNA in addition to protein and that RNA was an essential component of the active enzyme.

Much to their parents ' surprise and delight, the two were married while summering in Europe in 1963.

Much to his surprise, his friend points out that it is in fact very close and not on a hill in the distance.

Much to Benoit's surprise, Los Guerreros helped him win the match.

Much to his surprise, von Bek is charged by Lucifer with doing God's work, by finding the Holy Grail, the " cure for the world's pain ," that will also cure Lucifer's pain by reconciling him with God.

Much to the surprise of many of his friends, Chatwin married Elizabeth Chanler ( a descendant of John Jacob Astor ) on 26 August 1965.

Much to Andros ' surprise, it turns out that Karone is actually Astronema, who was raised by Ecliptor to be evil.

Much to the surprise of his peers, he delivers convincing rhetoric, using Vilmorin's arguments.

Much to their surprise, Sonic aids Sally in falling to her death.

Much to the surprise of the Chinese the new currency even gained in value against the gold yen, although Japanese businessmen claimed that it was not backed up by sufficient silver reserves.

Much to his surprise, Brian learns that she is pregnant with his child.

Much to his surprise, he soon finds out Jennifer has moved on with another man.

Much to his surprise, Michael reciprocates Steve's feelings, and realises that he too is gay.

Much to the surprise of the other four members in February 2011, Tom Hingley announced on Twitter that the Inspirals had split up.

Much to his surprise, Calvert indeed strikes lucky, finding a virtually intact memory core with the first-ever images of the reason for the Laymil racial suicide.

Much time is spent on her interaction with the computer TEC, which has suffered from a glitch and has fallen in love with Peach to her surprise.

Much to his surprise, it is said he saw the lord himself narrating the story.

Much to the surprise and relief of Rudolph and Hermey, Yukon Cornelius returns with a tamed Abominable Snow Monster, whom he has taught to place a star on top of a Christmas tree.

Much new equipment and many unique techniques have been developed for the quantitative exposure of experimental animals to aerosols of infectious agents contained in particles of specified dimensional characteristics.

Much of the province is wild or semi-wild, so that populations of many mammalian species that have become rare in much of the United States still flourish in British Columbia.

Much research has been carried out on chess, in part because many tournament players are publicly ranked in national and international lists, which makes it possible to compare their levels of expertise.

Much organic carbon retained in many agricultural areas worldwide has been severely depleted due to intensive farming practices.

Much as 19th century science is often treated as the inventor of conceptions of evolution and race which had serious negative political and social consequences, many 19th century historians pursued what they intended as reasonably objective research projects in the history of their own and other regions either to end by themselves using the results to support nationalistic goals or to see their work used that way by others.

Much more detailed speculation based on these scant historical details has been interpolated by many of Galois ' biographers ( most notably by Eric Temple Bell in Men of Mathematics ), such as the frequently repeated speculation that the entire incident was stage-managed by the police and royalist factions to eliminate a political enemy.

Much to the anger of many Volunteers, MacCurtain, under pressure from Catholic clergy, agreed to surrender his men's arms to the British on Wednesday.

Much focus has been put on the illegal fossil dealing in China, where many specimens have been stolen.

Much of the development during the quantitative revolution is now apparent in the use of Geographic information systems ; the use of statistics, spatial modelling and positivist approaches is still important to many branches of human geography.

Much of its appeal in this era was due to the ribald, suggestive themes featured by many troupes ; this appeal was further augmented by the fact that the performers were often also available for prostitution.

Much advancement has undoubtedly been made toward cooperation between architect and librarian, and many good designers have made library buildings their specialty, nevertheless it seems that the ideal type of library is not yet realized — the type so adapted to its purpose that it would be immediately recognized as such, as is the case with school buildings at the present time.

Much of this tradition derives from the pagan Anglo-Saxon customs held during " Þrimilci-mōnaþ " ( the Old English name for the month of May meaning Month of Three Milkings ) along with many Celtic traditions.

Much like Hess, Johnson left many of the football related decisions up to his management team and tended to avoid the spotlight however, upon hiring head coach Rex Ryan, Johnson had an increased presence as he molded the Jets into his team.

Much honour was given to him in Germany, many buildings have his name, books about him were best-sellers, and he was often painted, e. g., by Franz von Lenbach and C. W.

Much of Urban's life is shrouded in mystery, leading to many myths and misconceptions.

Much of the 968's chassis was carried over from the 944S2, which in itself shared many components with the 944 Turbo ( internally numbered 951 ).

Much effort, and many different designs of piston crown, went into developing improved scavenging.

Much of the Windows Shell and many Windows applications ( including MS Internet Explorer, MS Office, and countless third-party products ) are built on COM, demonstrating the viability of reference counting in large-scale systems.

Much like many private schools, there are some ( but not all ) magnet schools that require a test to get in.

Much like many private schools, the students must test into the school.

Much of the other work on the house was performed by immigrants, many not yet with citizenship.

Much of this reliability came from maturity in the source code, extensive stress testing of the system, and automatic detection of many serious errors in drivers.

Much like the historical religious organizations formed the basis for many of societal institutions, such as hospitals, service organizations perform many essential services for their community and other worthy causes.

Much of the crew and cast, including many locals who ended up participating in the show had to learn their respective jobs as they went along.