pilgarlic

“Those who had come to know him regarded Jack as pilgarlic.”

Fictionaut: Never Sated

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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

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

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

“In these circles, a word like ` pilgarlic 'can come in handy.”

FallNews - all mud and witches

“Besides being a real word in the dictionary that means a bald-headed man, ` pilgarlic 'is to ` bald' as ` statesman 'is to ` political hack.”

FallNews - all mud and witches

“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. ”

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