We all know that it was eight or ten "honorable" bloats of the last thirty years who made our chief international troubles.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
The dog, like all vertebrate animals, begins its existence as an egg; and this body is just as much an egg as that of a fowl, although, in the case of the dog, there is not the accumulation of nutritive material which bloats the egg of the hen into its enormous size.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
It's not my way to have gamblers, bloats, and jail-birds hanging around my place-'not if the court knows herself; and she thinks she does.
"A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century"
E. P. Roe