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And surely, I did be glad at last that the tablets were so easy gone in the mouth, and unfilling to the belly; for I had been without power and patience to eat proper victual.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

And surely, I did be glad at last that the tablets were so easy gone in the mouth, and unfilling to the belly; for I had been without power and patience to eat proper victual.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

Old myths and new rumours are like the East wind, Maiden, mighty unfilling; Bucolic ideas and crude panaceas won't help you, though with them all Fad-dom is thrilling.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Now, truly, I did be very hungry that time, and indeed to be alway so, for the tablets did be very unfilling to the belly, as you do well know from my tellings.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

Were I to set forth all the praises of blackness, my tale would be tedious; but little and enough is better than too much of unfilling stuff.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir