Gargantua's

Besides, maybe it took fifteen centuries of stern-faced monkish insistence on that ridiculous conception so that Rabelais could produce his wonderful mockery of it in his scatological depiction of "the very strange manner of Gargantua's birth."

John Seery: An Egghead's Eggnog Tidings 2008

As to the charge of plagiarism, we may say that Sterne's hero is like the _Gargantua_ of Rabelais in many particulars; but he is a man instead of a monster; while the chapter on _Hobby-Horses_ is a reproduction, in a new form of crystallization, of _Gargantua's wooden horses_.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Which Grangousier [Gargantua's father] seeing, said to

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

When one comes to speak of the actual contents of these books criticism itself must borrow Gargantua's mouth.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

After the fiery stimulants, compounded of brimstone and Stygian hatred, offered by Calvin and the Catholics, and after the plethoric gorge of good cheer at Gargantua's table, the mild sedative of Montaigne's conversation comes like a draft of nepenthe or the fruit of the lotus.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

But Gargantua's mare handsomely avenged all the outrages committed upon beasts of her kind.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

There were ragged tears in his flank and back, and a last stroke of Gargantua's talons had stabbed his shoulder to the bone.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

If he had possessed an over-growing confidence, Gargantua's attack had set it back, and he stole like a shifty fox through the night.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

We have no record of his infancy, and are tempted to supply the gap with Rabelais 'chapters on Gargantua's babyhood.

Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891

Let us take a look into the great caldrons, which appear to have come out of Gargantua's kitchen.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885