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Then blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance a piece of scurvy grace, he washed his hands in fresh wine, picked his teeth with the foot of a hog, and talked jovially with his attendants.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony