Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act v. sc. 9.
Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war,
First fought to inflame the parties, then to poise;
The quarrel loved, but did the cause abhor,
And did not strike to hurt, but make a noise.
Dryden, On the Death of Oliver Cromwell.
Stomach. Already in classical Latin ‘stomachus’ had all the uses, courage, pride, indignation, ill-will, which ‘stomach’ may be seen in the following quotations to have once possessed, but which at this day have nearly or quite departed from it.
And sence we herde therof oure hert hath failed us, neither is there a good stomache more in eny man, by the reasone of youre commynge.—Josh. ii. 11. Coverdale.
He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking