gorbellied

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “-- 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

• “The gorbellied children are the pests of the settlement.”

  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative

• “Prince Henry, the Navigator, despatched from Lagos, in 1417, an expedition to explore Cape Bojador, the 'gorbellied.”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “He was somewhat gorbellied, had a little shake in his head, and was in effect unwieldy of his body.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

• “He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp Roman nose, large rough eyebrows, mounted on a well-hung ass.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5

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