Gargantua
Example Sentences
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In 1995, Federated, the department store chain with an appetite like Gargantua, had already taken over Macy’s.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
These include Thurman Sensing, the conservative who had written about Gargantua.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021
Gargantua olives, he joked, came one per can.
From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019
Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
In Brittany it is traceable in the legend of Gargantua; in Germany there are several variations; and in Greece it finds its counterpart in the legend of Saturn or Cronus.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
