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The instant his heavily paunched figure moved from the wings, the crowd turned on the applause full blast.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Which direction are we to begin at?" asked the notary, a jolly notary fat and pale, big paunched too, and strapped up in an entirely new hunting-costume bought at Rouen.

From The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de

A battered bar filled one side, and before it stood five men in a row, attended upon by a heavily paunched and aproned fellow.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

It would not matter if it were only the paunched and flat-footed authors who were proclaiming the importance of writing without style.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

We reached the dead ram by a long circuit, paunched it, loaded ourselves with the best meat and the handsome skin, and returned to camp.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various