"Broken wind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what's that slinkin' beside the cover?—See! Now it's in the clover field, and goin' fast an' free, It's 'im, and they don't see 'im. It's 'im! 'Alloo! 'Alloo! My broken wind won't run to it—I'll leave the ...
— Songs of Action • Arthur Conan Doyle
... touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched bone ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... gods! look at that poor crest-maker, tearing at his hair,[309] and at that pike-maker, who has just broken wind in yon sword-cutler's face. ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al |
