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He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp Roman nose, large rough eyebrows, mounted on a well-hung ass.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles

He then asked the skipper what the idle lobcocks used to sacrifice to their gorbellied god on interlarded fish-days.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

He was somewhat gorbellied, had a little shake in his head, and was in effect unwieldy of his body.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony