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 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 the surprise of many observers, Pierce, Stein, and Belitsky all resurfaced in 2000: the three appeared on the self-titled album by Chappaquiddick Skyline, a side project of the Massachusetts-based Pernice Brothers.

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 of Chinese culture, literature and philosophy further developed during the Zhou Dynasty ( 1045 – 256 BC ).

Much of this new scholarship comes from the realization that there is much about Chinese history that is unknown or controversial.

Much of the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine derived from empirical observations of disease and illness by Taoist physicians and reflects the classical Chinese belief that individual human experiences express causative principles effective in the environment at all scales.

Much of the rioting targeted Chinese Indonesians.

Much as he wished to contain the conflict, even considering personal diplomacy with Kuomintang Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, he and his cabinet feared that Japanese troops would not respect any peace agreement.

* Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang ' an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government orders fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriches not only the diets of the people but also the surroundings.

Much of Said's criticism of Western " Orientalism " is based on particularizing trends also present in Asian works by Indian, Chinese and Japanese writers and artists, in their views of Western culture and tradition.

Much of what is known about the history of Greater Mongolia, including Inner Mongolia, is known through Chinese chronicles and historians.

Much of what is known of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.

Much of the Chinese gang warfare took place on Doyers street.

Much of the book was also translated into Chinese as the Huihui Yaofang ( Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality ) by the Hui people in Yuan China.

Much of Manglish grammatical structure is taken from Chinese dialects.

Much of the official signage in the terminal buildings is trilingual ( English, French, and Chinese ).

Much of the vocabulary borrowed by Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese ( collectively known as Sino-Xenic vocabulary ) descends from Early Middle Chinese, but many distinctions were inevitably lost in mapping Chinese phonology onto foreign phonological systems.

Much of the information collected by the Chinese mainstream media is published in neicans ( internal, limited circulation reports prepared for the high-ranking government officials ), not in the public outlets.

Much of what we know of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.

Much of Chinese culture still continues until today ; such as lion and dragon dancing during the CNY, temple celebration, eating bakchang ( meat dumpling ), mooncake, baby fullmoon, pulut kuning, telur merah, eat ' e ' ( tangyuan ), religious celebration including praying Na Tuk Kong.

Much of the early extant evidence for the origins of Mahāyāna comes from early Chinese translations of Mahāyāna texts.

Much of the criticism of this statement involved the historical significance of the term: sangokujin historically referred to ethnic Chinese and Koreans, working in Japan, several thousand of whom were killed by mobs of Japanese people following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.

Much like the ancient Greeks, the Chinese traditionally believe that guardian gods watched over cities.

Much of this vocabulary was borrowed back into Chinese around the turn of the 20th century and is now used indistinguishably from native Chinese vocabulary.