34 adjectives to describe bellying

I'll get a mouse-trap in a minute, And bait with cheese that's smelly To bring him helter-skelly That little empty belly, And then I'll have him in it.

"Windy bellies without hearts in them.

reckons up these signs, that they are "lean, withered, hollow-eyed, look old, wrinkled, harsh, much troubled with wind, and a griping in their bellies, or bellyache, belch often, dry bellies and hard, dejected looks, flaggy beards, singing of the ears, vertigo, light-headed, little or no sleep, and that interrupt, terrible and fearful dreams," Anna soror, quae, me suspensam insomnia terrent?

There were two sorts, one of the shape of a trout, and ten inches long; it had a dirty orange-yellow belly, and a muddy bronze back; the lower hole of the nose had a raised margin.

Do your level best, drag other fellas' packs hundreds o' miles over the ice with a hungry belly and bloody feet, and thenPoor old Nig!'cause you're lamepoor old Nig!"

A large lobworm, however, as every one knows, is a very attractive bait for any kind of fresh-water fish except pike. Stoats with reddish-brown backs and yellow bellies may often be seen hunting the rabbits, and the little weasels may sometimes be drawn out of their holes in the walls if one makes a squeaking noise with the lips.

Their bales are heavy, and their bellies flat with lack of feasting.

It is plumbeous, with a fulvous belly and white tail coverts.

Note me this, good friend; Your most grave belly was deliberate, Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered: "True is it, my incorporate friends," quoth he, "That I receive the general food at first, Which you do live upon; and fit it is; Because I am the store-house and the shop Of the whole body:

And was presently almost out of sight, stretching his horse's gray belly to the earth, like a coursing dog after a hare.

He must stroke down the infinite belly of a Wapping landlady.

Besides, he did not often have to waste such time and energy to make a kill, and now, bent on a quick ending, the fur which fringed his lean belly cut the dew from the grass as he stretched to his full and matchless speed.

Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; Butterflies which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk, who passes under them or over them.

"Come up here, you Southdown with the bare belly," says the man in the wagon.

He cannot help wondering: 'Whether great-ear'd persons have short necks, long feet, and loose bellies?' 'Marcus Antoninus Philosophus,' he notes in his commonplace book, 'wanted not the advice of the best physicians; yet how warrantable his practice was, to take his repast in the night, and scarce anything but treacle in the day, may admit of great doubt.'

I shall say that I have found everything here is sterilethe talk abortivethe men mere windy bellies without hearts in them!" Chapter Fifteen "I'll have nothing to do with it!"

The second region is the chest, or middle belly, in which the heart as king keeps his court, and by his arteries communicates life to the whole body.

After his breath was gone, Forced perforce thus from his panting breast, Straight they despoiled him; and not alone Contented with his death, on the dead corpse, Which ravenous beasts forbear to lacerate, Even upon this our villains fresh begun To show new cruelty; forthwith they pierce His naked belly, and unripp'd it so, That out the bowels gush'd.

Choose ducks with plump bellies, and with thick and yellowish feet.

And in the following beautiful scenery from the Midsummer-night's dream, (in which I have taken the liberty to alter the place of a comma), the description of the swimming step and prominent belly bring the whole figure before our eyes with the distinctness of reality.

The old cynic was found floating, scarred belly upwards, on the surface of the water.

Even these smallest salmon trout have green backs, only black spots, and silvery bellies; from which it is evident that they are the offspring of lake trout, or lachs forelle, as it is called by the Germans; whilst the river trout, even when 4 or 5 lbs., as we see in one of these fish, though in excellent season, have red spots.

It was about a speckled snake that lived far away on a piece of waste ground; how day after day he sought for his lost playmatethe little boy that had left him; how he glided this way and that on his smooth, bright belly, winding in and out among the tall wild sunflowers; how he listened for the dear footstepslistened with his green leaf-shaped, little head raised high among the leaves.

Who but beleeves That Doublets with stuft bellies and big sleeves And those Trunk-hose which now our life doth scorne Were all in fashion and with custome worne?

Then one after another he set up six of the tall glass jars in a row, and showed how, alternating with the other six bottles turned upside down, the thick belly of one accommodating itself to the thin neck of the other, the twelve made a very decent rectangle of glass.

34 adjectives to describe  bellying