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  • Great for surfers, but not so hot for sailors off a long night on the beach with a bellyfull of sorrow and a head full of cotton.

    The running from San Pedro blues James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • Great for surfers, but not so hot for sailors off a long night on the beach with a bellyfull of sorrow and a head full of cotton.

    The running from San Pedro blues James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • For those who have had a bellyfull of race and gender baiting, implausable denials and "Democrats for a day," here's your opportunity to do something positive.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • ERROL LOUIS, "NEW YORK DAILY NEWS": Well I don't know if they'll have a bellyfull.

    CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2007 2007

  • ERROL LOUIS, "NEW YORK DAILY NEWS": Well I don't know if they'll have a bellyfull.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2007 2007

  • My landlord was likewise beginning his oration to Jones, but was presently interrupted by that generous youth, who shook him heartily by the hand, and assured him of entire forgiveness, saying, “If you are satisfied, my worthy friend, I promise you I am;” and indeed, in one sense, the landlord had the better reason to be satisfied; for he had received a bellyfull of drubbing whereas Jones had scarce felt a single blow.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • You -- "this was to me --" keep yourself mighty still, lessn you want a bellyfull o 'lead.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • You -- "this was to me --" keep yourself mighty still, lessn you want a bellyfull o 'lead.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • A week of inaction, and I've had a bellyfull of peace!

    Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966

  • Work him hard all day, an 'maybe the next mornin' when you're set to fork leather again, he shows you a bellyfull of bedsprings an 'you're unloaded for fair.

    Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

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