"'All this mad rushing up and down, bellowing like Gadarene swine...'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 31
A Sea of Words explains: "Gadarene swine: a reference to the story in Matthew 8:28 of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea and drowned." (207)
"'All this mad rushing up and down, bellowing like Gadarene swine...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 31
A Sea of Words explains: "Gadarene swine: a reference to the story in Matthew 8:28 of the swine that rushed down a steep cliff into the sea and drowned." (207)