I'm a purist and loathe the idea of fattened goose liver in my burger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Strausman: Where's The Beef (From)?] Reference

Each year, the gross Social Security check is "fattened" by a few dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessary Remedy] Reference

The change in personnel "fattened" the band's sound and added a new dimension of versatility to Sour Mash.    From Wordnik.com.  [orangeleader.com (Orange, Texas) Homepage] Reference

Eventually those kind of fattened interests have a way of colliding with the king and need to be eliminated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say Anything] Reference

Those caught are put into dark rooms, where they are fattened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The cow, when beginning to recover, should be fattened and sold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

"He's older and his face has fattened out a lot," Sutherland says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fox is Hunted Down] Reference

Once on a time there was a sheep who stood in the pen to be fattened.    From Wordnik.com.  [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference

Fidelity has fattened too many retirement accounts to earn that label.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light Went On] Reference

This bunch has been fattened up on a range we keep specially for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

Maybe it's cars, not carbs, that have fattened Americans so alarmingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A New Food Pyramid] Reference

I fattened her, and for my own information had her slaughtered at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference

Bellota-Bellota is devoted to cured ham from acorn-fattened Iberian pigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Be a Gourmet in the Paris Stores] Reference

The monks also reared sheep and horses, and fattened fish in their ponds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

He fattened steadily, and in proportion, growing more slug-like every day.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

There are many stories of hogs being fattened on beechnuts in pioneer days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference

Her hand turned boney first, even as her arms were still fattened and dimpled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Ton Woman and the Amazonian Half Man] Reference

The rich pasturage of Sussex fattened the ox into its superior size and weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Farmers, he says, are being used as shills for people who've fattened on stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Estate Of The Nation] Reference

No wheat had been raised, no hogs had been fattened; corn and potatoes were the only food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The old man's cornfields were fattened by the blood of his sheep, and he would give no quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

The Chinese bullock is a compact little animal, and, when fattened, yields remarkably good beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference

(He shuddered saying all this.) "We saw a Columbian woman of good family being fattened in a bamboo cage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference

A few captives were held as slaves, but most of them were fattened -- to be killed and eaten at the royal feasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Kansas City, a raid was made on an outlying herd that was being fattened in a sheltered valley for future shipment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders] Reference

Americans are spending more of their incomes and saving less, because fattened stock portfolios make them feel wealthier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Too Good To Last?] Reference

I had fattened your swine beautifully and was driving them home when they fell into a bog and are all swallowed up in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

Then another time we made an experimental shipment of 500 old steers to California, to be grazed and fattened on alfalfa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Instead, they're fattened with acrylic into bad paintings and then installed with all the sensitivity of a Van Nuys garage sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome To Manson High] Reference

The Romans, long, long ago, kept snails in special gardens and fattened them on meal and boiled wine, and ate them at their feasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

The woods abounded with acorns, and roots of different kinds, on which they fed and fattened, and were reckoned most excellent food.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

The steers and yearlings, with which Bud's father had entrusted him and the boy ranchers, thrived and fattened on the succulent grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference

They had also fish-ponds, and spacious poultry-yards, set apart for keeping geese and other wild fowl, which they fattened for the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

And there self-confident defiance, fattened a long time on the belief that law was a thing to be sneered down, met inflexible resolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Every pond in Kirkstead has its fish; fish doubtless of ancient lineage, the descendants of those on which monks and abbotts once fattened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference