fatted

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The pig had been bought, fatted, and killed; but other pigs were inhabiting the sty, almost as large as their former dwelling, which stood at the end of their garden; and the children told with honest joy how all this prosperity had come about.

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  • She looked over his smooth baby-fatted skin, the newscaster's perfect hair, the gray suit, wing tips, Cartier watch. —  Mistress of Justice
  • Ritters given up to luxuries, to secular ambitions; ritters no longer clad in austere mail and prayer; ritters given up to wantonness of mind and conduct; solemnly vowing, and quietly not doing; without remorse or consciousness of wrong, daily eating forbidden fruit; ritters swelling more and more into the fatted-ox condition, for whom there is but one doom. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • “This is most definitely an occasion for the fatted calf A calf?” Pippa said with a puzzled frown. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • Choose a gentle, super-fatted, fragrance-free soap -- bar or liquid -- for cleansing. —  WebMD Health
  • These are not common yellow dogs, such as you saw in the capital of the Turkish empire; but they are the peculiar Chinese breed, sleek and hairless, which are carefully fatted, and prepared for market. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
 

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