: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

Tradition has preserved a few of the following names of the chiefs of the Connestigiune tribe who inhabited this section of the country: Ron-warrigh-woh-go-wa ( signifying in English the great fault finder or grumbler ), Ka-na-da-rokh-go-wa ( signifying a great eater ), Ro-ya-na ( a chief ), As-sa-ve-go ( big knife ), and A-voon-ta-go-wa ( big tree ).

But Claude Gueux is a big eater, and the tiny quantities of food he is given are not large enough for him.

Figger we got to be plumb careful with any of you Highlands big shots ''.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

Real big, with shoulders out to here, and hair all over him like a grizzly.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

A rowdy with a big blob of a nose roared.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

`` There's a big boat anchored near the Place De La Concorde, with a swimming pool in it -- didn't you notice it??

It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

And there are now many millions of workers for whom the factory with the big parking lot, which can be reached by driving across or against the usual pattern of rush hour traffic and grille-route bus lines, is actually more convenient than the walk-to factory.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.

The two big monarchies put an end to this period of national unification, and waged the Austro-Prussian War against each other.

In 2007 there were big protests against the government, resulting in the appointment of a new prime minister.

* 1821 – The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.

Dixit's next big performance came in Umesh Mehra's hit Mujrim and Aziz Sejawal's directed movie Ilaaka in both movies Dixit continued against super dancer and fiter hero Mithun Chakraborthy.

Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg ( probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty and burga for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry I the Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs.

Signorile argues that the outing of journalist Pete Williams " and its aftermath did indeed make a big dent in the military's policy against gays.

The treaties resulted from the big diplomatic congress, thereby initiating a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of a sovereign state governed by a sovereign and establishing a prejudice in international affairs against interference in another nation's domestic business.

The last big action against the RAF took place on 27 June 1993.

The other big loss for the Redskins that season occurred during a coin-tossing ceremony prior to a game against the Giants.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

As a figure of speech contrasted to " Main Street ", the term " Wall Street " can refer to big business interests against those of small business and the working of middle class.

* Basarab I, after the battle against the Tatars, is named " big prince " of Wallachia by the feudal lords of the region.

Raeder stated that unless this was done, there would be a delay in warship construction which would ensure that the time when the Kriegsmarine " would be sufficiently strong and ready to act against the big sea powers " would not happen in the near future.

But after two big losses against PSV ( 6 – 2 ) and Sparta Rotterdam ( 4 – 0 ) Van Basten's Ajax could only make it to number three.

His goal, therefore, was to unite these groups in the Democratic Party, and to dedicate that party to states ' rights and agricultural interests as barriers against encroachment by government and big business.

The potential for big gains needs to be weighed against equally likely losses.

The act furthered Wilson's reputation against trusts and big business.

Hitler and his associates planned to use Munich as a base for a big march against Germany's Weimar Republic government.

" After a clip of the interview was played on the Late Show with David Letterman, Ayman called Baron Cohen a “ big liar .” Abu Aita subsequently filed a $ 110 million lawsuit against Baron Cohen and David Letterman.

The barrier was originally designed to protect London against a big flood level, with a return period of one thousand years up to the year 2030, after which the protection would decrease, whilst remaining within acceptable limits.