Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

“Move along, you coxcomb,” Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.

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At intervals Salinas suffered from a mild eructation of morality. The process never varied much. One burst was like another. Sometimes it started in the pulpit and sometimes with a new ambitious president of the Women’s Civic Club.

John Steinbeck. East of Eden, p.448 (1952)

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She’d gone to the campus infirmary, told the doctor she was having painful menstruation and all sorts of embarrassing eructations on her skin, and the doctor had written her a prescription.

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scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)