"Venter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... danger. 45 Kings are compar'd to Gods, and should be like them, Full in all right, in nought superfluous, Nor nothing straining past right for their right. Raigne justly, and raigne safely. Policie Is but a guard corrupted, and a way 50 Venter'd in desarts, without guide or path. Kings punish subjects errors with their owne. Kings are like archers, and their subjects, shafts: For as when archers let their arrowes flye, They call to them, and bid ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... their venters are so thick and strong; and have several duplicatures, as the bases of those muscules, whereupon the stress of their motion lies. By means whereof they are able with ease to rowl and tumble any part of the meat from one cell of the same venter to another; or from one venter to another; or from thence into the gullet, whensoever they are minded to do it; so that the ejectment of the meat, in rumination, ...
— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey
... still Jan had not got wherewi' To venter eet to morry; Alas-a-dAc! when poor vawk love, How much restraint how many pruv; How ...
— The Dialect of the West of England Particularly Somersetshire • James Jennings
... table,—that is, rounded by the principle of rotation,—for how could she settle points of precedence with the august heads of her various Departments without danger of the dinner's growing cold? Substantial dinners are eaten thereat with Homeric appetite, nor, though impletus venter non vult studere libenter, are the visits of the Muse unknown. At these feasts no tyranny of speech-making is allowed, but the bonbons are all wrapped in original copies of verses by various contributors, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... flocked before his door, Attracted by the trousers that he wore; While his vest, a bosom-venter, Shook Formosa to the centre, And they hailed him as a ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles
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