There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]

But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.

1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91,
Flag of the seas! on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave;
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,

We heard the swarming streets, the noisy mills;
Saw sooty foundries full of glare and gloom,
Great bellied chimneys tipped with tongues of flame,
Quiver in smoky heat.

Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skins
Plump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:

[…] the choicest of his friends,
Such as would blush to talk such serious follies,
Or back such bellied commendations […]

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