Careful Words

stomach (n.)

stomach (v.)

Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge

Had stomach for them all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act v. Sc. 2.

  It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

  Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable: "It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites."

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Life of Coriolanus.

I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink

With him that wears a hood.

Bishop Still (John) (1543-1607): Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii.

He was a man

Of an unbounded stomach.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.