The top of the great stained glass windows at each end of the hall, are cut off to accommodate a new flat plaster roof;—the old Gothic one, with its rich groining and carved work, could not be renewed but at the expense of at least two guttles!

[P]lague tak the greedy guttles, I wish they wud gie ae meal, out o' the five, to their head.

Our doctor used to call me a ravenous eater; my mamma remarked I was blessed with an excellent appetite; cook said I was ‘a rare good one for vittals;’ and James, my own brother, whom I loved almost as much as stewed beef, invariably called me a ‘guttles.’ This unkind nickname pained me. It was vulgar, and more un-Christianly because it was so cuttingly true.]

And can you paſs by money fixed in mud, / Nor ſvvallovv vvith your guttle mercurial ſpittle?

And Marſeus (he vvho gave his houſe to the actreſs Origo) lives again in the perſon of their young heir, vvho novv guttles dovvn vvith an actreſs the laſt mortgage of an eſtate he has near the Eſcurial.

We might have Dido's maid coming after her mistress in the shower with pattens and an umbrella; or Cleopatra's page guttling the figs in the basket which had brought the asp that killed the mistress of Antony.

[I]t doesn't much matter to me so long as I can have a slice of cake before Mieka guttles it all.

Time vvas, e'er Temperance had fled the realm; / E're Luxury ſat guttling at the helm / From meal to meal, vvithout one moment's ſpace […]

In a vvord, an Engliſhman, after guttling on pudding and beef, vvell diluted vvith ſtrong beer, talks avvay, of all other nations, as if they had not the ſame creator.

Here idiotiſm is inveſted vvith place and honour, and a goat or a ſvvine guttles in a chair of ſtate.

I am perſuaded, my dearly beloved, that no man vvould guttle, or gormandize, on our modern ſtevvs, ſoups, ſpiced meats, and the like, if he had but a doctor's bill lying before him, and reflected on the enormous charge for an emetic; or if he conſidered that he vvho guttleth maketh his body a kind of barbecued hog, […]

The learned doctor declares that "soup" is an excellent substitute for "solid diet;" and that starvation with the poor is almost equivalent to gormandizing and guttling with "the more substantial classes of society."

Poverty, poverty knock, My loom is sayin' all day. / […] / I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go / Poverty, poverty knock.
Quotation of a 19th-century song called “Poverty Knock”; the title refers to the repetitive sound of the loom.

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