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
In 1995, Federated, the department store chain with an appetite like Gargantua, had already taken over Macy’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019
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
We condense and defecate for this purpose the thirty-eighth chapter of the first book, which is staggeringly entitled, “How Gargantua did eat up Six Pilgrims in a Sallad:”
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
