entrails

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The circuit board from an old talking doll that was all the rage in 1985 gets the solemn description: “Teddy Ruxpin’s Holy Entrails Excised Under Unknown Circumstances.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

And in his Ionian he says— And after this were served up the rich Entrails of roasted tunnies; then there came Those natives of the lake, the holy eels, Bœotian goddesses; all clothed in beet.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Sir Basil Hopwood was the rather of the same complexion of Entrails with that Signor Volpone whom we have all seen—at least such of us as be old Boys—in Ben Jonson's play of the Fox.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

This Operation is usually perform'd when there is a Wound in the Belly so wide as to let out the Entrails.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

The Gazarim, from the bare observing of the good and bad Omens, by the Entrails of Beasts, flying of Birds, &c. were turn’d to Sacrists or Priests of the Heathen Idols and Sacrificers.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel