pilgarlic

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So don't I, quoth Panurge; poor pilgarlic is fain to make everybody's time his own; if they have time, I find time.

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  • So don't I, quoth Panurge; poor pilgarlic is fain to make everybody's time his own; if they have time, I find time. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • Or that pilgarlic e'er will dote —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • I do not offer the pinched-up pilgarlic who dines off a wizened apple and a crust of bread as a model for imitation; at the same time, I warn you seriously against following the example of the gobbling glutton who swallows every dish that tempts his palate. " —  The Merry-Go-Round
  • After this, we e'en jogged to bed for that night; but the devil a bit poor pilgarlic could sleep one wink -- the everlasting jingle-jangle of the bells kept me awake whether I would or no. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • He is not the pettifogging pilgarlic of popular conception: he is a devoted servant of letters, willing to take his thirty or forty dollars a week, willing to suffer the _peine forte et dure_ of his profession in the knowledge of honest duty done, writing terse and marrowy little essays on manuscripts, which are buried in the publishers 'files. —  Shandygaff
 

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