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  • Be men for the last time, and be content that ye die full-stomached.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

  • Be men for the last time, and be content that ye die full-stomached.

    The Wisdom of the Trail 2010

  • Sleep -- a sort of comfortable, full-stomached reverie that was the beginning of the end.

    The Short Life Francis Donovan

  • Be men for the last time, and be content that ye die full-stomached.

    The Wisdom of the Trail 1900

  • He was in charge of a branch telegraph-office there, and when I had last met him was a jovial, full-stomached, portly Government servant with a marvelous capacity for making bad puns in English -- a peculiarity which made me remember him long after I had forgotten his services to me in his official capacity.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He was too exalted by his present happy fate -- penniless, jobless, family in mourning, but healthy, safe, and full-stomached, not to omit an ebullience of spirits incited by the continuing wonder of each new listener and the praise for his deeds and by the conviviality of his admirers.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • Be men for the last time, and be content that ye die full-stomached.

    The Son of the Wolf Jack London 1896

  • The far corners of the attic were peopled with fantastic shadows, and the spiders in the window were swaying, lazy and full-stomached, in the midst of the day's spoils of gruesome wings and legs.

    Mary Marie 1894

  • That evening when the boy was safe in bed -- clean, full-stomached, and sleepily content the sisters talked it over.

    Across the Years 1894

  • ‘A steward am I, and a steward will I remain to the end; for, from being full-stomached and heavy with dropsy, I have become strong and well.’

    Dead Souls 1842

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