"To eruct, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "means to
belch, and that is one of the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one; and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of
belch say eruct, and instead of
belches say eructations; and if some do not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood; this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are all-powerful there."
Dirk Stroeve had the passion of Romeo in the body of Sir Toby
Belch. He had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners.
Once or twice of a night we would see a steamboat slipping along in the dark, and now and then she would
belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river and look awful pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her powwow shut off and leave the river still again; and by and by her waves would get to us, a long time after she was gone, and joggle the raft a bit, and after that you wouldn't hear nothing for you couldn't tell how long, except maybe frogs or something.
There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top
Belch'd fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic Ore, The work of Sulphur.
an Belcher come here, I'll
belch him: I am not afraid of a devil.
Then, with an awful suddenness, their cry became the cry of death, for out from the bushes
belched a yellow line of fire as the rifles of Trent and his men rang out their welcome.
The deep cannonade of roaring thunder
belched forth its fearsome challenge.
They
belched and howled like brass devils guarding a gate.
After resting an hour or two, driven to it by our torturing thirst, we went on, toiling painfully in the burning heat up the lava slopes, for we found that the huge base of the mountain was composed entirely of lava beds
belched from the bowels of the earth in some far past age.
A score of muskets
belched forth their missiles at the fearless girl behind the scant shield of the machine gun.
Suddenly a strong glare of light flashed across the scene, the fog rolled upward in thick wreaths, and several cannons
belched across the plain, and the roar was thrown heavily back from the bellowing echoes of the mountain.
The press, that giant machine, which incessantly pumps all the intellectual sap of society,
belches forth without pause fresh materials for its work.