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The engineering work, said Gaster, will be done by the inventors -- who happen to be her twin brother, Richard Gaster, and his colleague Drew Hall at Stanford University.
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Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in the wrong.
Les Miserables 2008
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Great Gaster became querulous; hunger was now the chief complaint, and even the bon ordinaire had lost much of its attraction.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The pilot was telling us how, on a certain time, after the manner of the members that mutinied against the belly, as Aesop describes it, the whole kingdom of the Somates went off into a direct faction against Gaster, resolving to throw off his yoke; but they soon found their mistake, and most humbly submitted, for otherwise they had all been famished.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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They all owned Gaster for their supreme god, adored him as a god, offered him sacrifices as to their omnipotent deity, owned no other god, served, loved, and honoured him above all things.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Gaster invented an art to avoid being hurt or touched by cannon-balls.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Gaster invented means to get and preserve corn.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He does not hear; and as the Egyptians said that Harpocrates, the god of silence, named Sigalion in Greek, was astome, that is, without a mouth, so Gaster was created without ears, even like the image of Jupiter in Candia.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How Pantagruel went ashore at the dwelling of Gaster, the first master of arts in the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thus Gaster, having caused a brass falcon to be charged with a sufficient quantity of gunpowder well purged from its sulphur, and curiously made up with fine camphor, he then had a suitable ball put into the piece, with twenty-four little pellets like hail-shot, some round, some pearl fashion; then taking his aim and levelling it at a page of his, as if he would have hit him on the breast.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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