beef-eater

So it\'s not surprising that, moments after he stated that \ "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius\" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday, people (including myself) believed it.

Kyle Cassidy: Michael Pollan's 'Hummer-Driving Vegan' Claim Debunked 2009

So it's not surprising that, moments after he stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday, people (including myself) believed it.

Kyle Cassidy: Michael Pollan's 'Hummer-Driving Vegan' Claim Debunked 2009

They say that sort of Bartholomew-fair advocacy (in which people are invited to an entertainment by the medium of a hoarse yelling beef-eater, twenty-four drums, and a jack-pudding turning head over heels) is absolutely necessary to excite the public attention.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

He used to be slender as an eel, and now I fancy in him a sort of heavy dragoon bent — a beef-eater tendency.

Villette 2003

Yorkshire pudding rebels against Eastern cookery, and a Christian may sooner become a Buddhist than a beef-eater a guzzler of _olla podrida_.

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

Scotland Yard squares at you, a fat beef-eater of a policeman disguised miraculously as a Bastille.

Tono Bungay 1906

When dinner was served, there happened to be a fine roast upon the table, and the aforementioned young beef-eater was present.

Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894

Dad begged the man's pardon and told him he supposed the boys were murdered a year or two ago, and he gave the beef-eater a dollar, and he was so gratified I think he would have had a murder committed for dad right there and then if dad had insisted on it.

Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 1878

To allow strangers to visit Nepaul, and reside at Katmandu, was unusual, but bearable; the idea of a common beef-eater infringing the limits of a circle beyond which no British resident, much less traveller, had ever penetrated, was so monstrous a heresy on the part of the prime minister -- so serious an infraction of a well-established rule -- that even

A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858

They say that sort of Bartholomew-fair advocacy (in which people are invited to an entertainment by the medium of a hoarse yelling beef-eater, twenty-four drums, and a jack-pudding turning head over heels) is absolutely necessary to excite the public attention.

The Fitz-Boodle Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837