Bowels
['bauəlz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. [1]. Intestines, guts, viscera, inwards.[2]. Inside, interior, interior parts.[3]. Compassion, pity, tenderness.
Checker: Sumner
Definition
n.pl. the interior parts of the body the entrails the intestines: the interior part of anything: (fig.) the heart pity tenderness (the emotions being supposed to be seated in the bowels—B. and Shak.).—v.t. Bow′el to take out the bowels.
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This way, cried the boy, and, without waiting to know that I had heard him, he dashed off at breakneck speed, further into the bowels of the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And yet, now, every day, the great red-hot stroke of horrified fear through the bowels of the son struck a further inflammation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And it was this duality in feeling which he created in her, that made a fine hate of him quicken in her bowels. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So cold, so cold, a heavy, bruising cold pressing on his arms from outside, and a heavier cold congealing within him, in his heart and in his bowels. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lastly, that were it not for these _diverticula_, it would rage in the bowels of the earth much more furiously, and make greater havoc than it doth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Immediately a hatch cover was raised from the surface of the object, and a black seaman sprang from the bowels of the strange craft. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And the sharp, heavy bruise of ice bruised his living bowels. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was so inert, so coldly dead, a carcase, Birkin's bowels seemed to turn to ice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Coal gas can hardly be claimed as an invention, however, for natural gas from the bowels of the earth had been observed and used in China from time immemorial. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Has the little buxom widow no bowels, to condemn her best teacher to solitary confinement? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And as there were no forks in those days, his clutches were instantly in the bowels of the pasty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We must seek firing in the bowels of the earth, or the unkind atmosphere will fill us with rheums and aches. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Vince