overgorged

Charles Dickens wrote: “The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the paneling; the paneling set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses of government were reduced to ashes.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Charles Dickens wrote: “The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the paneling; the paneling set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses of government were reduced to ashes.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Charles Dickens wrote: “The stove, overgorged with these preposterous sticks, set fire to the paneling; the paneling set fire to the House of Commons; the two houses of government were reduced to ashes.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

I reply "But we have a study" and she swelled to about twice her already overgorged size and yells at me about reporting me or something.

sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2005

Europe, with her old overgorged empires and rotten dynasties, is corrupt Egypt; gallant France is the Twelve Tribes, and her fresh and vigorous Usurper the Shepherd of Horeb. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

He was loth, it seems, to die with his cods overgorged.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

He was loth, it seems, to die with his cods overgorged.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Uitlanders -- are refused almost every civil right, except the privilege of paying exorbitant taxes to swell an already overgorged treasury.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke

This absurd old man, with his lean, crooked figure, his mottled skin, and his piercing bloodshot eyes, like the eyes of an overgorged bird of prey, appeared now as an object that moved one to tears, not to laughter.

Virginia Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

At length the overgorged beast of prey, with all the diseases in his veins that over-eating brings, finds that his claws are not so sharp as they were, that his belly is much heavier when he tries to leap and that it is now chiefly by his voice he still scares his enemies.

The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890