So I perceive in them all one and the same specifical form, and the like individual properties, which our ancestors called Pantagruelism; by virtue whereof they will bear with anything that floweth from a good, free, and loyal heart. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
In one of them Rabelais was born, and found Quintessence, and of that finding -- more fortunate than the result of True Thomas finding the Elf Queen -- was born Pantagruelism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
He was superb in vegetable Pantagruelism, with his cravat taken off, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his fruit-knife in hand, laughing, drinking water, carving into the pulp of a doyenne pear. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
For my part, I am thereabouts, thanks to his blessed goodness; and by the means of a little Pantagruelism (which you know is a certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune), you see me now hale and cheery, as sound as a bell, and ready to drink, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
They have not the note of true Pantagruelism. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference
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