Word: swine
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...This gang of drunken, filthy swine besmirches the honor of every honest German soldier who lies buried with an Iron Cross on his chest...
...Those of us who may prefer prehistoric affinity to swine are asked to cut their own throats from ear to ear. Those of us ... who have a predilection for consanguinity with sheep are asked to make only a small slit in our throats...
...locusts John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...
...iQth Century. This typical but fictional one, at Harmony Heights, Mass., is devoted to a sharing economy based on the sale of animal traps to the outer world, and to selective breeding designed to do for man "what has long been done for horses, swine and potatoes." The economy breaks down with the advent of a handsome inventor from Yale whose mass-production machinery gives the less hardened socialists their first idea of a capitalist paradise...
Students, who were roomed and boarded by Mistress Eaton, in furious tones which have a familiar ring berated her for "ungutted mackeral" and "hasty pudding containing goat's dung." Unlike her successors, she frankly confessed deficiencies in the cuisine and explained that "the students and the swine have share and share alike...