Present, and kneeling at chairs about the room, they always were on these occasions, for the order was imperative, and the father's arm was strong, and above the door hung a strap of no light weight, constituting as it had once done that portion of a horse's harness known technically as the bellyband.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo
She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
It was not because of crime that "He buckles up his talk like the bellyband on a broncho," as Malachi Deely, the exile from Tralee, said of him; and Deely was a man of "horse-sense," no doubt because he was a horse-doctor-"a veterenny surgeon," as his friends called him when they wished to flatter him.
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