entrails

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The circuit board from an old talking doll that was all the rage in 1985 gets the solemn description: “Teddy Ruxpin’s Holy Entrails Excised Under Unknown Circumstances.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

My uncle, the Catechist, is Tioakoekoe, Man Whose Entrails Were Roasted on a Stick, and his brother is called Pootuhatuha, meaning Sliced and Distributed.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

And in his Ionian he says— And after this were served up the rich Entrails of roasted tunnies; then there came Those natives of the lake, the holy eels, Bœotian goddesses; all clothed in beet.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The Gazarim, from the bare observing of the good and bad Omens, by the Entrails of Beasts, flying of Birds, &c. were turn’d to Sacrists or Priests of the Heathen Idols and Sacrificers.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel

But the Patient must be oblig'd to lie on his Belly for some Days successively, to cicatrize the Wound thereof, or that of the Entrails.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel