swine

No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

There have been nine such declarations, including the Ebola outbreak in 2013, the COVID-19 pandemic and the swine flu pandemic in 2009.

From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026

The last one in 2009, called swine flu, was comparatively mild.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

In the spring of 2009, a shift happened with an H1N1 strain, also known as swine flu.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

At this point in their talk the swine had come up to the clearing, and the drovers followed to pen them for the night—the porkers squealing to high heaven, milling around the yard.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Human respiratory physiology is more like that of swines than felines.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025

Another manager on the brink is Quique Sànchez Flores, reportedly set to be sacked by the ungrateful swines at Watford, with a first top-ten finish in 30 years still on the table.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2016

But 'e says, "None of yer jabber, ye swines; 'elp me inter my bunk, and two of yer bring me a 'ot linseed poultice for my chest."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various

Wherefore no body tooke heede thereto, vntil such time as the Moores perceiuing that many followed them in superstition, and that the Loutea fauoured them, they began to forbid wholy the eating of swines flesh.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt

The myth of Circe turning the companions of Ulysses into swines shows the religious belief, in ancient Greece, in magical transformation of human beings into animals.

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll