As for food, I eat no more than the chameleon that doth fill its belly with air and nought else, foolish beast!

D.Elecampane root possesses the general virtues of alexipharmics: it is principally recommended for promoting expectoration in humoural asthmas and coughs; in which intention, it used to be employed in the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia: liberally taken, it is said to excite urine, and loosen the belly.

A wolf tears open the belly, and eats the intestines first.

I have been told by one who heard it from an eye-witness that a great Whig duchess, who figures brilliantly in the social and political memoirs of the eighteenth century, turning to the footman who was waiting on her at dinner, exclaimed, "I wish to G- that you wouldn't keep rubbing your great greasy belly against the back of my chair."

Skillfully and beautifully Smith played him for a quarter of an hour, until at last the fish turned his orange belly to the surface, and ceased to struggle.

"For my part," he said, "I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully, for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else."

At each gust of wind they incline like idle birds, lifting their long wings and showing their black bellies.

He soon grew familiar to her dialect, and in a few weeks heard, without any emotion, hints of gay clothes with empty pockets; concurred in many sage remarks on the regard due to people of property; and agreed with her in detestation of the ladies at the other end of the town, who pinched their bellies to buy fine laces, and then pretended to laugh at the city.

I've grown a goitre by dwelling in this den As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they hap to be Which drives the belly close beneath the chin:

It is passed round the foot-bars of the howdah, and several times round the belly of the elephant.

ten thousand tempests burst the belly of this day, wherein old Francisco ventur'd Life and Limbs, Liberty and Wife to the mercy of these Heathen Turks.

He touched the person's belly.

When I came to the surface I saw the white belly of a shark, as he turned to seize me in his jaws.

A soldier, clothed in iron armor, was to follow the vehiclehis hands and face besmeared with combustible matter, and this soldier, armed with a long staff, was at an appointed signal, to pierce the belly of the horse and also of the rider, previously filled with combustibles, so that when the ignited point came in contact with them, the whole engine would make a tremendous explosion and blaze in the air.

"I lay sleeping, having kept my belly empty that I might wake easily.

These horrible animals had the boldness to attack me on both sides, and one of them held his forefeet at my collar; but I had the good fortune to rip up his belly before he could do me any mischief.

I went up to him, and made him a salam; he returned my salutation with great kindness, and laid on the table instantly some bread and butter, and a roast fowl and wine, and said, "Eat thy belly full."

He doth not feed the belly, but the palate; and though his command lie in the kitchen, which is but an inferior place, yet shall you find him a very saucy companion.

But at length she floated to the surface, unconscious, her belly up, as if dead.

Therefore we flogged the belly of our tired horse with the lash of a long whip, and hurried along.

I had almost forgot my own great belly.

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.

Who got that belly there? Const.

"We're used to going belly far.

Spalding's bullet had grazed its belly, raking off the hair and graining the skin; mine had gone through its head.