"Bellyful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be in danger of being hanged for three such enormous rapes, although Hickman should escape with only a bellyful of sea-water? ...
— Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) - History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... him on board would he or no. So he had sailed away and the colonists were all hopeful, in their silly, simple way, that he would soon return in a great ship and carry them to a land as lovely as a dream, where all their wishes would be fulfilled for the asking, and where each man would have his bellyful of good things without the working for it. For that was, it seems, the notion most of these fellows had in their heads of poor Captain ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... says when he has had a bellyful of fighting and wants to surrender. Of late this has been quite a popular phrase with him, replacing ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey |
