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  • He warmed himself in the fire and ate the entrails.†   (source)
  • A terrible jealousy gnawed at his entrails.†   (source)
  • Steel bit into flesh just above the Dothraki's waist, and opened him from backbone to belly button, spilling his entrails into the dust.†   (source)
  • The ground had caved in where the whale had hit it, revealing a network of galleries and passages, now largely obstructed by collapsed rubble and entrails.†   (source)
  • I can feel that cough stirring in me solar plexus an' workin' its way up through me entrails till the next thing it takes off the top o' me head.†   (source)
  • Keep your offer and tell your master that the crows can eat his entrails for all I care!†   (source)
  • One was a kneeling man with homed animals feeding on his entrails.†   (source)
  • Kassad pulled himself along, floating through debris and the tangled entrails of the ship's wiring.†   (source)
  • Why end up suffocating on your own entrails out in back of some Buy 'n' Fly when you can put on a crisp terracotta blazer instead and become part of a jovial famiia?†   (source)
  • Jeff takes the empty pail and fills it with water from the lake, pours it across the messy entrails and into the fish pens.†   (source)
  • She heard the change in his voice, felt coldness in her entrails at the sound.†   (source)
  • They said that whoever killed the Ophiotaurus and sacrificed its entrails to fire would have the power to destroy the gods.†   (source)
  • The bucket crashes to the floor, splattering chopped entrails everywhere.†   (source)
  • He lunged forward, her hands slipped, and suddenly he was biting her, biting her bare stomach just below the white cotton cups of her bra, digging for her entrails Donna uttered a low, feral cry of pain and shoved with both hands as hard as she could.†   (source)
  • Our holy men have better things to do, like locking themselves up in caves and reading sheep entrails.†   (source)
  • Children were in school; men were at work; and most of the women were fastening their corsets and getting ready to go see what tails or entrails the butcher might be giving away.†   (source)
  • The "something else" was blood and entrails.†   (source)
  • It was easy to read the message in his entrails.†   (source)
  • Stranger still, her wound wasn't even bleeding, and there was no gore or little bits of entrails hanging out of it, like I knew to expect from horror movies.†   (source)
  • I felt as if he plunged it into my heart several times, so that it penetrated all the way to my entrails.†   (source)
  • The tunnel was long and twisting, switchbacking on itself over and over as if Jace were crawling through the entrails of an enormous monster.†   (source)
  • She rocked her on and on, past Dachau, where soul-gutted Jewish mothers swept their children's entrails off laboratory floors.†   (source)
  • No, you said, I am the hunter's dog and I shall eat the entrails of the game and the faeces of the hunter.†   (source)
  • The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about.†   (source)
  • Carefully, I eased his entrails back into place.†   (source)
  • "Hang you with the entrails of a large animal," he says, joining in, a smile forming.†   (source)
  • I am to follow like a starved dog the entrails of any personal affect.†   (source)
  • Then I realize it's my entrails, clenching.†   (source)
  • Steam poured from Errtu's exposed entrails and enveloped the combatants.†   (source)
  • There is a woman in the first block of the open market who sells snake entrails as aphrodisiacs, predominantly cobra.†   (source)
  • The grand mullah of Mecca had given a speech denouncing the nanovaccines and stating that they were made from the entrails of pigs.†   (source)
  • I became two men, the observing one and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even into the depths of his entrails.†   (source)
  • The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.†   (source)
  • It tried to dance, but its entrails dragged about its legs, and the bear came and wept for the deer.†   (source)
  • How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, dutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away!†   (source)
  • Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,   (source)
  • But Amasa did not notice the sword in Joab's hand; Joab struck him in the belly so that his entrails poured out on the ground, and he died.   (source)
  • The oracles read the entrails to foretell the future.
  • At that time sterilized cow entrails were used to string tennis rackets.
  • Winston's entrails seemed to have turned into ice.   (source)
  • Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold.   (source)
  • For a moment it felt as though his entrails were being ground to pulp between the two muscular hips, then he had broken through, sweating a little.   (source)
  • Winston's entrails contracted.   (source)
  • On a rock jutting from the edge of the water, a bird tears at the entrails of a dead fish.†   (source)
  • If he looks too thin, I can slip him a few entrails, provided my next request is allowed.†   (source)
  • Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.†   (source)
  • Maybe we could avoid talking about entrails, too.†   (source)
  • You will bring its entrails to the sacred fire on the mountain.†   (source)
  • His entrails were sliding from his belly, yet somehow he slew the boar.†   (source)
  • But before you can wind it again my cousin here will spill your entrails on the floor.†   (source)
  • The gods took my innocent sons' own entrails …."†   (source)
  • Luther reached into the paunch and lifted the entrails.†   (source)
  • Mama asked me if any of Yeller's entrails had been cut and I told her that I didn't think so.†   (source)
  • I am spattered with blood from the entrails.†   (source)
  • There, tangled in the low branches of a huckleberry bush, were the entrails of my dog.†   (source)
  • Like as not, my own forebears strung those entrails through the tree.†   (source)
  • Entrails spilled from the belly of the animal like frozen snakes, and one of its legs was gone.†   (source)
  • Run back to your master before I open your belly, pull your entrails out, and make you eat them.†   (source)
  • They had torn the poor garron apart, and were pulling out her entrails with dripping red hands.†   (source)
  • With gentle hands, she worked the entrails back through the opening.†   (source)
  • Now Luther went back into the stomach cavity and yanked the entrails out altogether.†   (source)
  • With trembling hands, I unwound the entrails from the bush.†   (source)
  • I want to pull his entrails out and show them to him before I let him die.†   (source)
  • His entrails had worked out and had become entangled in the bush.†   (source)
  • A nest of entrails coiled through a bush, entangled with the branches.†   (source)
  • It's said they hung their entrails in the branches of the heart tree, as an offering to the gods.†   (source)
  • The boar buried his snout in Barsena's belly and began rooting out her entrails.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Hermione, now turning the fragile pages as if ex-amining rotting entrails, "because it warns Dark wizards how strong they have to make the enchantments on them.†   (source)
  • Don Baithazar thought that the venerable Daton was a fraud, that Salmud Brevy and Robert Frost should have hanged themselves with their own entrails, that Wordsworth was a fool, and that anything less than Shakespeare's sonnets was a profanation of the language.†   (source)
  • [Buttercup] has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.†   (source)
  • But if I can hold down Greasy Sae's concoction of mice meat, pig entrails, and tree bark — a winter specialty — I'm determined to hang on to this.†   (source)
  • And pray that Khal Drogo does not hear of this, or he will cut open your belly and feed you your own entrails.†   (source)
  • Kronos knows full well, if one of you were to sacrifice the beast's entrails, you would have the power to destroy us.†   (source)
  • The first time, during the Titan war, the Ophiotaurus was in fact slain by a giant ally of the Titans, but thy father, Zeus, sent an eagle to snatch the entrails away before they could be tossed into the fire.†   (source)
  • Throat and chest had been torn apart, and glistening green entrails and ribbons of ragged flesh dangled from where the belly had been opened.†   (source)
  • He had stalked foes through the woods, fallen on them as they slept, clawed their entrails from their bellies and scattered them across the muddy earth.†   (source)
  • Show me where they're hiding, I will gladly slit their bellies open, pull their entrails out, and burn them.†   (source)
  • I have read the entrails!†   (source)
  • I will feed on your entrails!†   (source)
  • A reader of sheep's entrails, yes?"†   (source)
  • The woman took the bill, bunched the entrails in her hand and shoved them into a plastic bag on which there was a designer's signature.†   (source)
  • As he watched his entrails sliding through his fingers he said, Tut it has not been a year' " He laughed.†   (source)
  • They found Squint floating facedown in the moat, his entrails drifting behind him like a nest of pale snakes.†   (source)
  • Brothers watch their brothers die, fathers lose their sons, friends see their friends trying to hold their entrails in after they've been gutted by an axe.†   (source)
  • Remaining stooped, Bourne bowed rapidly twice and backed his way out of the crowd, dropping the snake entrails in the kerb far enough away from a street light so as not to be noticed.†   (source)
  • From inside her Davos saw green gushing from a thousand broken jars, poison from the entrails of a dying beast, glistening, shining, spreading across the surface of the river … "Back water," he roared.†   (source)
  • She could not forget the children on their posts, the birds tearing at their entrails, their skinny arms pointing up the coast road.†   (source)
  • Near the mouth of the strange, foetid bazaar a lone, muscular female sat on a low wooden stool, her thick legs parted, skinning snakes and removing their entrails, her dark eyes seemingly obsessed with each thrashing serpent in her hands.†   (source)
  • He slipped the entrails into a paper bag while the others began cleaning up, hosing down, salting, packing, straightening, and then they turned the cat over to let the blood drain down on its own hide.†   (source)
  • Hoarfrost covered it like a sheen of frozen sweat, and a nest of stiff black entrails dragged from its open belly.†   (source)
  • Very gently Mama worked the entrails out and in a pan of warm soapy water, washed them clean of the pine needles, leaves, and grit.†   (source)
  • Long they fought, rolling together over roots and stones and fallen leaves and the scattered entrails of the prey, tearing at each other with tooth and claw, breaking apart, circling each round the other, and bolting in to fight again.†   (source)
  • Worst of all, they had nailed a slave child up on every milepost along the coast road from Yunkai, nailed them up still living with their entrails —hanging out and one arm always outstretched to point the way to Meereen.†   (source)
  • Rip my entrails out?†   (source)
  • If you did not hold the Greatjon, he would pull out your entrails and make you eat them, as Lady Hornwood ate her fingers.†   (source)
  • The crows had stripped the flesh from the man's face, and a feral dog had burrowed beneath his mail to get at his entrails.†   (source)
  • The carcass hit the cobbles so hard that it burst open, spattering her lower legs with entrails and maggots.†   (source)
  • Sisterton's streets were mud and planks, its houses daub-and-wattle hovels roofed with straw, and by the Gallows Gate there were always hanged men with their entrails dangling out.†   (source)
  • He slashed open the pit fighter's belly, parried the arakh as it wrenched free, then finished Khrazz with a quick thrust to the heart as the pit fighter's entrails came sliding out like a nest of greasy eels.†   (source)
  • In a sense, the in-and-out addiction which Sophie had so vividly and scarily described to me had the effect of drawing me closer to Nathan, now that he was back; romantic as my reaction doubtless was, his demonic side—that Mr. Hyde persona who possessed him and devoured his entrails from time to time—seemed now an integral and compelling part of his strange genius, and I accepted it with only the vaguest misgivings about some frenzied recurrence in the future.†   (source)
  • The air filled with the sick odor of warm living entrails.†   (source)
  • It chewed and swallowed, and the entrails hung from its mouth.†   (source)
  • Noah slit the bodies from end to end and dropped the entrails out on the ground.†   (source)
  • He hated to act—he wanted to brood upon his entrails for fourteen hours a day.†   (source)
  • Your patient, properly handled, will have no difficulty in regarding his emotion at the sight of human entrails as a revelation of Reality and his emotion at the sight of happy children or fair weather as mere sentiment, Your affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE†   (source)
  • From the bottom of the trench as they neared it, rose the sweetish, festering stench of the city's iron entrails.†   (source)
  • It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of its secreted humors; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails.†   (source)
  • There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here.†   (source)
  • That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.†   (source)
  • The entrails had been woven and read long since: the frail shell of skull which guarded life, and which might have been crushed as easily as a man breaks an egg, was kept intact.†   (source)
  • Then the whiskey began to burn in him and he began to shake his head slowly from side to side, while thinking became one with the slow, hot coiling and recoiling of his entrails: 'I got to get out of here.†   (source)
  • Their entrails, as Andrew said the other day, were all over the floor; but then what was the point, she asked, of buying good chairs to let them spoil up here all through the winter when the house, with only one old woman to see to it, positively dripped with wet?†   (source)
  • Now, as everybody knows, a quarry is a reward of entrails, etc., which is given to the hounds on the hide of the dead beast (sur le quir), and, as everybody else knows, a slain boar is not skinned.†   (source)
  • He was gone; I did not even know that either since there is a metabolism of the spirit as well as of the entrails, in which the stored accumulations of longtime burn, generate, create and break some maidenhead of the ravening meat; ay, in a second's time,—yes, lost all the shibboleth erupting of cannot, will not, never will in one red instant's fierce obliteration.†   (source)
  • It was as though he carried within him, somewhere within that inert and sighing mass of flesh, the secret itself: that which moved and evoked them as with a promise of something beyond the sluttishness of stuffed entrails and monotonous days.†   (source)
  • …gripped between the two hands fierce with (what passed at least with him for it) love, against the two fierce rigid knees, the face that he remembered since before remembering began as supervising all the animal joys of palate and stomach and entrails, of warmth and pleasure and security, swooping down at him in a kind of blazing immobility: he taking the interruption as a matter of course, as just another natural phenomenon of existence; the face filled with furious and almost…†   (source)
  • Later still they were horrified to see that all the entrails of the horse were dangling in the dust also.†   (source)
  • The gray cat came out of the barn shed and trotted miaowing toward the fire, but, nearly there, it turned and went directly to one of the little piles of rabbit entrails on the ground.†   (source)
  • Queen Guenever was on the beach to meet them, and the first thing Lancelot knew after she had kissed the King, was that she was able to come between them after all He made a movement as if his entrails were tying themselves in knots, saluted the Queen, went off to bed in the nearest inn at once, and lay awake all night In the morning, he asked leave of absence from the court "But you have hardly been at court at all," said Arthur.†   (source)
  • …from the winter, the lazy sprawling draymen on his father's wooden steps, snaking their whips deftly across the pavement, wrestling in heavy horseplay, Jannadeau in his dirty fly-specked window prying with delicate monocled intentness into the entrails of a watch, the reeking mossiness of Gant's fantastical brick shack, the great interior dustiness of the main room in front, sagging with gravestones—small polished slabs from Georgia, blunt ugly masses of Vermont granite, modest…†   (source)
  • Al brought a bucket and shoveled the entrails into it, and dumped them on the ground away from the house, and two cats followed him, mewing loudly, and the dogs followed him, growling lightly at the cats.†   (source)
  • Your talons shall be tangled in its entrails and your beak shall drip with blood—†   (source)
  • They had to listen to him dying for six hours, with his entrails torn with slugs.†   (source)
  • And the children began howling as if they already had frightful pains in their entrails.†   (source)
  • The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!†   (source)
  • 'What can have made you wish to bring away that brute's entrails, father?†   (source)
  • One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at peace with himself.†   (source)
  • He sprang from the bed, the reeking odour pouring down his throat, clogging and revolting his entrails.†   (source)
  • Entrails they had none.†   (source)
  • Once when various tropical diseases had laid low almost every 'agent' in the station, he was heard to say, 'Men who come out here should have no entrails.'†   (source)
  • Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench, which caused the visitors to hasten by, gasping.†   (source)
  • One had to pay at the desk, Elizabeth said, and went off, drawing out, so Miss Kilman felt, the very entrails in her body, stretching them as she crossed the room, and then, with a final twist, bowing her head very politely, she went.†   (source)
  • He felt very tired, and hunger was gnawing at his entrails, but he could not sit still; he was constantly afraid of being spoken to by a policeman.†   (source)
  • Another made a slit down the body; a second opened the body wider; a third with a saw cut the breastbone; a fourth loosened the entrails; a fifth pulled them out—and they also slid through a hole in the floor.†   (source)
  • He was provided with a stiff besom, such as is used by street sweepers, and it was his place to follow down the line the man who drew out the smoking entrails from the carcass of the steer; this mass was to be swept into a trap, which was then closed, so that no one might slip into it.†   (source)
  • They had curled-hair works for the cattle tails, and a "wool pullery" for the sheepskins; they made pepsin from the stomachs of the pigs, and albumen from the blood, and violin strings from the ill-smelling entrails.†   (source)
  • So in a trice the carcass of the cow would be cleaned out, and entrails would have vanished; it was Jurgis' task to slide them into the trap, calves and all, and on the floor below they took out these "slunk" calves, and butchered them for meat, and used even the skins of them.†   (source)
  • "Well, scholar of Antichrist, may you be strangled with the entrails of your mother!" exclaimed Phoebus, and he gave the drunken scholar a rough push; the latter slipped against the wall, and slid flabbily to the pavement of Philip Augustus.†   (source)
  • They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound.†   (source)
  • The whole body of travellers seemed to be a collection of voluntary human sacrifices, bound hand and foot, and delivered over to Mr Eustace and his attendants, to have the entrails of their intellects arranged according to the taste of that sacred priesthood.†   (source)
  • They fetch a doctor, who opens the dead body, and collects from the entrails and stomach a quantity of arsenic in a spoon.†   (source)
  • I regard you as one of those men who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out, if only they have found faith or God.†   (source)
  • I also noticed some wrasse known as the tapiro, three decimeters long, bony fish with transparent scales whose bluish gray color is mixed with red spots; they're enthusiastic eaters of marine vegetables, which gives them an exquisite flavor; hence these tapiro were much in demand by the epicures of ancient Rome, and their entrails were dressed with brains of peacock, tongue of flamingo, and testes of moray to make that divine platter that so enraptured the Roman emperor Vitellius.†   (source)
  • "And mind," he continued, "don't bother me with any details of the anatomical process, or any notice of the condition of the entrails: let your operation be conducted in silence: tiens-toi tranquille, enfant; comprends-tu?"†   (source)
  • Above, a long brown beam, whence started at regular distances, massive, arching ribs, represented the vertebral column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed dirty diaphragms.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of the soothsayer who warned Caius Julius against the Ides of March, and fancied him looking for the omens of evil which his master despised in the entrails of a chicken.†   (source)
  • Oh, great city, it is in thy palpitating bosom that I have found that which I sought; like a patient miner, I have dug deep into thy very entrails to root out evil thence.†   (source)
  • In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families pouring themselves out into the darkness, not knowing clearly what has become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the public highway.†   (source)
  • This rabbit dead, the Abbe Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day.†   (source)
  • , five thousand seven hundred and nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis-Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris.†   (source)
  • It was he who had willed that happiness, it was he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing his factory mark on a knife, on withdrawing it, all smoking, from his own breast.†   (source)
  • When Enkidu heard, these words he tore out the Bull's right thigh and tossed it in her face saying, 'If I could lay my hands on you, it is this I should do to you, and lash the entrails to your side.'†   (source)
  • The blinding cloud of death enveloped him as he sprawled out, his entrails held in his hands before him.†   (source)
  • And the king hit him again that he carved his belly and cut off his genitours, that his guts and his entrails fell down to the ground.†   (source)
  • Hektor saw his brother Polydoros fallen aside against the earth, his entrails in his hands; and mist of death veiled Hektor's eyes as well.†   (source)
  • As when the lord of fair-haired Hera flashes, bringing on giant storms of rain or hail or wintry blizzard, sifting on grey fields— or the wide jaws of drear and bitter war— so thick and fast the groans of Agamemnon came from his heart's core, and his very entrails shook with groaning.†   (source)
  • …two at once, rapping them on the ground
    he knocked them dead like pups—
    their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor—
    and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal
    he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, left no scrap,
    devoured entrails, flesh and bones, marrow and all!
    We flung our arms to Zeus, we wept and cried aloud,
    looking on at his grisly work—paralyzed, appalled.
    But once the Cyclops had stuffed his enormous gut
    with human flesh, washing it down with raw…†   (source)
  • But the poor buffer would have to stand all the time with his insides entrails on show.†   (source)
  • (He plunges his head into the gaping belly of the hanged and draws out his head again clotted with coiled and smoking entrails) My painful duty has now been done.†   (source)
  • Round about the caldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw.†   (source)
  • Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, They could not find a heart within the beast.†   (source)
  • Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails?†   (source)
  • Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs, And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?†   (source)
  • Not sprung from noble blood, nor goddess-born, But hewn from harden'd entrails of a rock!†   (source)
  • Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords In our own proper entrails.†   (source)
  • Thick clouds of rolling smoke involve the skies, And fat of entrails on his altar fries.†   (source)
  • Truly cask, by losing mid-board or cross-piece, is not so split open as one I saw cleft from the chin to where the wind is broken: between his legs were hanging his entrails, his inner parts were visible, and the dismal sack that makes ordure of what is swallowed.†   (source)
  • At last this odious offspring whom thou seest, Thine own begotten, breaking violent way, Tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart, Made to destroy.†   (source)
  • And the king hit him again that he carved his belly and cut off his genitours, that his guts and his entrails fell down to the ground.†   (source)
  • If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.†   (source)
  • Some strip the skin; some portion out the spoil; The limbs, yet trembling, in the caldrons boil; Some on the fire the reeking entrails broil.†   (source)
  • Let any mother of children that reads this consider it, and but think with what anguish of mind I restrained myself; what yearnings of soul I had in me to embrace him, and weep over him; and how I thought all my entrails turned within me, that my very bowels moved, and I knew not what to do, as I now know not how to express those agonies!†   (source)
  • @what food Will he convey up thither, to sustain Himself and his rash army; where thin air Above the clouds will pine his entrails gross, And famish him of breath, if not of bread?†   (source)
  • Whose hand soever lanc'd their tender hearts, Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction: No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, To revel in the entrails of my lambs.†   (source)
  • …his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights—if it were land that ever burned With solid, as the lake with liquid fire, And such appeared in hue as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side Of thundering Etna, whose combustible And fuelled entrails, thence conceiving fire, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke.†   (source)
  • Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man In entrails, heart of head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air: All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense; and, as they please, They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.†   (source)
  • By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky.†   (source)
  • …in a moment up they turned Wide the celestial soil, and saw beneath The originals of nature in their crude Conception; sulphurous and nitrous foam They found, they mingled, and, with subtle art, Concocted and adusted they reduced To blackest grain, and into store conveyed: Part hidden veins digged up (nor hath this earth Entrails unlike) of mineral and stone, Whereof to found their engines and their balls Of missive ruin; part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.†   (source)
  • High on the deck the godlike hero stands, With olive crown'd, a charger in his hands; Then cast the reeking entrails in the brine, And pour'd the sacrifice of purple wine.†   (source)
  • Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky loured; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original: while Adam took no thought, Eating his fill; nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared, the more to sooth Him with her loved society; that now, As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings, Wherewith to scorn the earth: But that…†   (source)
  • The loaves were serv'd in canisters; the wine In bowls; the priest renew'd the rites divine: Broil'd entrails are their food, and beef's continued chine.†   (source)
  • Immediate in a flame, But soon obscured with smoke, all Heaven appeared, From those deep-throated engines belched, whose roar Embowelled with outrageous noise the air, And all her entrails tore, disgorging foul Their devilish glut, chained thunderbolts and hail Of iron globes; which, on the victor host Levelled, with such impetuous fury smote, That, whom they hit, none on their feet might stand, Though standing else as rocks, but down they fell By thousands, Angel on Arch-Angel rolled;…†   (source)
  • A snow-white bull shall on your shore be slain; His offer'd entrails cast into the main, And ruddy wine, from golden goblets thrown, Your grateful gift and my return shall own."†   (source)
  • Asylas on his prow the third appears, Who heav'n interprets, and the wand'ring stars; From offer'd entrails prodigies expounds, And peals of thunder, with presaging sounds.†   (source)
  • When thus in public view the peace was tied With solemn vows, and sworn on either side, All dues perform'd which holy rites require; The victim beasts are slain before the fire, The trembling entrails from their bodies torn, And to the fatten'd flames in chargers borne.†   (source)
  • A milk-white heifer she with flow'rs adorns, And pours the ruddy wine betwixt her horns; And, while the priests with pray'r the gods invoke, She feeds their altars with Sabaean smoke, With hourly care the sacrifice renews, And anxiously the panting entrails views.†   (source)
  • The glad attendants in long order come, Off'ring their gifts at great Anchises' tomb: Some add more oxen: some divide the spoil; Some place the chargers on the grassy soil; Some blow the fires, and off entrails broil.†   (source)
  • A rav'nous vulture, in his open'd side, Her crooked beak and cruel talons tried; Still for the growing liver digg'd his breast; The growing liver still supplied the feast; Still are his entrails fruitful to their pains: Th' immortal hunger lasts, th' immortal food remains.†   (source)
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