Gargantua
Example Sentences
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Mustafa Kocyigit, who runs the Gargantua bookshop in Izmir, said the success of Nolan's film has revived interest in Homer and boosted sales of the poem "The Odyssey".
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Melville's Moby-Dick and Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time – these works spoke paradoxically directly to me in their very sense of indirection.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
Other mythical personages are also credited with their erection, most frequently either the devil or Gargantua being held responsible for their miraculous creation.
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
