Example Sentences

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The world of books is no puritanical bourgeois-ridden democracy; it is a large free country, a great Pantagruelian Utopia, ruled by noble kings.

From One Hundred Best Books by Powys, John Cowper

It was our little man of the Pantagruelian banquet.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

He would reduce our life to a beautiful unrestricted "Abbey of Thelema," over the gates of which the great Pantagruelian motto "Fay ce que vouldray" would be written in letters of gold.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

All he says of the Pantagruelian herb, though he amply developed it for himself, is taken from Pliny's chapter on flax.

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

I imagine myself as Panurge, taking counsel with a Pantagruelian friend.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John