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In fact, the last of these is reputed to wreak such havoc on digestion that the 17th century English botanist John Gerard once remarked of them, “Which way soeuer they be drest and eaten they stirre and cause a filthie loathsome stinking winde within the bodie, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented and are a meat more fit for swine than men.”
The Other Indigestible Carbs Steve Carper 2007
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In fact, the last of these is reputed to wreak such havoc on digestion that the 17th century English botanist John Gerard once remarked of them, “Which way soeuer they be drest and eaten they stirre and cause a filthie loathsome stinking winde within the bodie, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented and are a meat more fit for swine than men.”
Archive 2007-04-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Against the whiche lesse any man of righte iudgemente should aftrewarde write or dispute (as against a pestilent and filthie perswasion) he wrote a lawe in his Alcorane that it shoulde be deathe to as many as should reason or dispute vppon it.
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For when their drawe into age, their briedeth a kinde of winghed lice in their bodies, of diuers colours, and very horrible, and filthie to beholde: whiche firste eate out their bealies, and then their brest, and so the whole body in a litle space.
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And hereof proceedeth the great dissention and discorde of religion and maners among this kynde of filthie men, whyle some confirm one doctrine, and some another, by reason of theyr dyuers sectes of Patrons, Doctours, and Saintes, as they call them.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Pagans which do not beleeue as they do, in their false filthie prophets, Mahomet and Murtezalli.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I haue seene with mine eyes, that those people and souldiers haue eaten of all sorts of wild beastes that are on the earth, whether it bee very filthie or otherwise all serueth for their mouthes: yea, I haue seene them eate Scorpions and Serpents, also they feed of all kinde of herbes and grasse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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That breathed euer forth a filthie banefull smell.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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March, their cousine germane, whome (as they reported) Owen Glendouer kept in filthie prison, shakled with irons, onelie for that he tooke his part, and was to him faithfull and true.
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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