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Saint Thomas, Stephen smiling said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original, writing of incest from a standpoint different from that of the new Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions.
Ulysses 2003
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He then asked the skipper what the idle lobcocks used to sacrifice to their gorbellied god on interlarded fish-days.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He then asked the skipper what the idle lobcocks used to sacrifice to their gorbellied god on interlarded fish-days.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In this order they moved towards Master Gaster, after a plump, young, lusty, gorbellied fellow, who on a long staff fairly gilt carried a wooden statue, grossly carved, and as scurvily daubed over with paint; such a one as Plautus, Juvenal, and Pomp.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For, on the word of a gentleman, I had rather bear in war one hundred blows on my helmet in the service of my country than be once cited by these knavish catchpoles merely to humour this same gorbellied prior.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For, on the word of a gentleman, I had rather bear in war one hundred blows on my helmet in the service of my country than be once cited by these knavish catchpoles merely to humour this same gorbellied prior.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In this order they moved towards Master Gaster, after a plump, young, lusty, gorbellied fellow, who on a long staff fairly gilt carried a wooden statue, grossly carved, and as scurvily daubed over with paint; such a one as Plautus, Juvenal, and Pomp.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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-- Saint Thomas, Stephen smiling said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original, writing of incest from a standpoint different from that of the new Viennese school Mr Magee spoke of, likens it in his wise and curious way to an avarice of the emotions.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word gorbellied
-- Saint Thomas, Stephen, smiling, said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original ...
Joyce, Ulysses, 9
January 6, 2007
pavonine commented on the word gorbellied
having a protuberant belly:corpulent (Obs) OED
See ventripotent
June 15, 2008