Noun : the bowels of the earth.    From Dictionary.com. 

Facing this, the very centre of the bowels is knotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

Mrs Wilson has had an inflammation in her bowels, is recovered, and gaining strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference

As you may know, Rocky's MOH has been in bowels of the bureaucracy since February, 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Versace, Humberto R.] Reference

I fear will be no long liver; for I am told she has sometimes the gout in her bowels (I hate the word bowels).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal to Stella] Reference

A few days before the term the bowels should be freely opened and kept open until the period for the discharge has arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Note deliberate use of the word 'bowels' - which gives a clue about my view of the emanated material.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Right-Winger - Moi?] Reference

Pneumonia, perforation of and bleeding from the bowels are the most frequent dangerous complications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference

Like it or not, our bowels are the ID cards of our bodies, charting our recent histories with terrifying accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hollywood Liberal] Reference

The use of medicines to loosen the bowels, which is very common among many, is still another cause of the disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

A pun on "bowels," it serves as the workshop of Blake's stand-in Los.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange] Reference

But the first quote really takes away from the plausibility of Rice's "bowels" statement see above.    From Wordnik.com.  [~ Angry Bear] Reference

Caves and burial chambers were said to be sunk in the "bowels" of the earth - that is, of Mother Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

For what literal-minded context in which "bowels" or.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference

The "bowels" include the region of the heart, the seat of the affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The editor doesn't like the word "bowels" so I will only refer to your problem as being in the "lower intestines.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurriyet Dailynews] Reference

His bowels were a wreck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beard] Reference

(literally, 'bowels') which, in their intense selfishness, are cruel even to animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

Newton, as it is elsewhere, "bowels"; namely, His compassion (Ps 22: 14; Isa 63: 15; Jer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

In the bowels of the cathedral her life was taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belly Button (#5)] Reference

His children moved him here when he could no longer control his bowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [My World Now] Reference

They all release their bowels simultaneously and skip back to the green room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Season 8 Premiere Recap] Reference

From her bowels and her underdeveloped privates she bawled for her dead mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deer People] Reference

"Gotta go," Detwiler said, rolling a black suitcase through the bowels of Miller Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ross Detwiler to start Sunday [Updated]] Reference

Most of these are the good variety, which help us regulate our bowels and process gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Rivera: What the YUCK?!] Reference

He said that he did not want to “deal with anybody down in the bowels of the organization.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web-Exclusive Excerpt: ?A Question Of Intent?] Reference

For those who dwell in the bowels of the national security state, there are prerogatives to protect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Bacevich: The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War] Reference

 But when he moved Tarzan, what little was left inside his bowels expelled onto the rug of the office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Tarzan] Reference

The party carried into the bowels of the E Center, where the players imagined the parties in Minsk, the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belarussian Miracle On Ice] Reference

The precious information provided by anonymous sources comes from elsewhere, usually the bowels of the bureaucracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [YOU SHIELD US, WE'LL SHIELD YOU] Reference

But stuck inside for nine days, with hundreds of reporters crammed in the bowels of the building, it lost all charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Bored to Bedazzled, In Eight Races] Reference

Walking into the candidate's holding room in the bowels of the War Memorial, Simon discovered an extraordinary scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [What A Long, Strange Trip] Reference

This required descending into the bowels of Zhongguancun, where you can see the benefits of a market economy up close.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Screen of Death] Reference