Pantagruelian

• “There was cheer all around, and offerings of wedges of white bread and pasteurized cheese, which we stuffed into our mouths in a burlesque of a Pantagruelian feast.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 3

• “They looked into Mr. Chirac's seemingly Pantagruelian appetite, as he and his wife expensed food to the tune of €600 a day for years; had the Chiracs really eaten so much?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Citizen Chirac

• “To the heathen philosopher succeeded a pack of Capuchins, monks who forbid us the use of beans, that is, Pantagruelian books.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Richelieu's theatre was made into an opera-house, and masked balls of an unparalleled magnificence were frequently given, not forgetting to mention -- without emphasis however -- suppers of a Pantagruelian opulence and lavish orgies at which the chronicles only hint.”

  Royal Palaces and Parks of France

• “Pantagruelian motto "Fay ce que vouldray" would be written in letters of gold.”

  Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations

• “He fed, it is true, in Pantagruelian fashion on luscious viands, transcending his imagination of those which lay behind Blinks the confectioner's window in Bludston: there he succumbed to the animal; but the sports, the swing-boats, the merry-go-round, offered no temptation.”

  The Fortunate Youth

• “The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.”

  Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature

• “I imagine myself as Panurge, taking counsel with a Pantagruelian friend.”

  The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

• “The little eyes of the fleshy rubicond host, loafing comfortably in shirt-sleeves, glistened as he received the Pantagruelian order and brought the great tankard with a modest half pint for me, and a jorum of rum for himself.”

  The Belovéd Vagabond

• “Pantagruelian party is itself bound; the rather too severely punished ill-manners of the sheep-dealer Dindenault; the strange isles of various nature -- such, especially, as the abode of the bailiffs and process-servers, which gives occasion to the admirably told story of”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

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