Word: stomachly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a sack inside his vest, wily jack-the-giant-killer climbed the beanstalk and banqueted competitively with the Giant. While giant ate, Jack stuffed sack instead of stomach. Then, with a sword, he disgorged the sack's contents. Not to be outdone, the giant ripped himself open, died...
...Secretary of War Hurley, suffering recurrence of an old stomach ailment, was taking a two-week rest at the President's summer retreat on the Rapidan...
Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...
...enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself to glide into the starfish's protuberant stomach. Oystermen have learned to clear the water of starfish by using a long mop, but other foes lurk beneath the surface. There are snailfish molluscs known as drills, borers, whelks and conches that congregate upon the oyster in such masses that they smother him. And the drum fish, sometimes several...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham, 56, married (to Syrie, daugher of the late Dr. Barnardo, famed founder of homes for waifs), studied to be a doctor, instead traveled, took notes, observed, wrote. Medium-sized, mustached, with fat stomach, square jaw, Author Maugham lives at Cap Ferrat, France, but travels whenever, wherever, he wishes. During the War he served in the intelligence service, British Army; was stationed in Russia, where bad, meagre food made him ill. Critic Hannen Swaffer once wrote Author Maugham asking him how to pronounce his name. Replied Maugham: "My name rhymes with waugham, as in 'a waugham...