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Gargantua

noun
1.
A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name.



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"Gargantua" Quotes from Famous Books



... spun out of it,—and as great a Variety of Personages, Opinions, Transactions, and Truths, found to lay hid under the dark Veil of its Allegory, as ever were discovered in the thrice-renowned History of the Acts of Gargantua and Pantagruel. ...
— A Political Romance • Laurence Sterne
... adjustments which make up the general problem of assimilability of the alien and of the strength of our own national digestion. America had a giant's undiscriminating appetite in the great days of expansion from 1850 to 1890. But there are many signs, economic and other, that we can no longer play Gargantua and continue a healthy nation. An unwise engineer sometimes over-stokes his boilers, and courts disaster. Is it not equally possible that national welfare may suffer from an over-dose of human fuel ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various


Words linked to "Gargantua" :   imaginary creature, imaginary being


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