I make no doubt that there were some who grumbled and carped and cavilled; said this and said that; grunted porcine over the pretty pass things were coming to in the city when a nobody or a next-to-nobody like young Dante of the Alighieri could presume to lift his impudent eyes to a daughter of a man like Folco Portinari, one of the first citizens of Florence, and a man that builded hospitals and basilicas at his own expense.
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy
He was not carnivorous, or a beast of prey, and ugly as he was, certainly looked better alive than he would as a porcine corpse.
"Woodcraft"
George W. Sears
If number one still more grossly demonstrates his porcine lineage, Jonathan dislikes to make trouble-until number one comes to despise those whom he insults, and plainly expects every circle to bow to the sovereignty of selfishness.
"From the Easy Chair, series 2"
George William Curtis