Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me; I have dined today. From LearnThat.org. [Sydney Smith (1771-1845).]
At a lavish party hosted by the Carmagos, Inza describes himself as an "epicure" whose blood is a "mixture of fine European wines.". From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood] Reference
Two years with Darco had made him something of an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Because you are an epicure, shall there be no more cakes and ale?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
He is a confirmed epicure, and at plundering hen-roosts an expert. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Soon Chalabi was dining from time to time with Perle, a fellow epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall Of Chalabi: Bush's Mr. Wrong] Reference
No man can be a true epicure who is unfamiliar with this excellent herb. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Serenely full, the epicure would say Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
The oyster is now a dish for the epicure and the lobster for the millionaire. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
His gull was quite an epicure in its way, and fancied sparrows 'flesh for dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Years before this I had learned that a hungry man can eat what an epicure despises. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Live while you live, the epicure would say and seize the pleasures of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
I am reminded of an epicure who starved to death for want of seasoning in his Julienne. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
So far, I am, indeed an epicure, but in all other things, I am the most moderate of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827] Reference
The vegetables can be omitted, and smothered chicken still be a dish to rejoice an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
I see in your face that you are a thorough epicure; how will you endure to spend a week with me? '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Perhaps Pliny was too fastidious to be a proper epicure even -- too fastidious in other directions, we mean. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
La Ramée, who is a bit of an epicure, tries his pies, finds them excellent, and asks me if I would like to taste one. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
He amused himself while cogitating over it, tasting like an epicure the flavour of the good wine to be drunk presently. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Live while you live, the epicure would say, &c., are repeating the epigram which Philip Doddridge wrote, and which Samuel. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Those we obtained were magnificent specimens -- large and juicy, with a flavor to tempt the appetite of the veriest epicure. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Colonel Mills is quite an epicure, and he and Mrs. Mills have a reputation for serving choice and dainty things on their table. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Edward was highly elated at his success, and laughed and joked over a dinner they enjoyed with a relish an epicure might covet. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
M. Charnot was evidently pleased with the view before him, and turned from side to side, gently smacking his lips like an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If the recipe is closely followed, any family may enjoy it at a trifling expense, and it is really worthy the table of an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
The one from which I was served might well tempt the palate of an epicure, but the other looked too forbidding for a human stomach. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Jacquemin, general overseer of the Baroness's parties in the Rue Murillo, did not confess himself inferior to any one as an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was not only not ever an inconsiderate lover, but he was too much of an epicure to take too much or too often even when he could. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
The tent was soon pitched, a fire of brushwood kindled and the salmon broiled to a relish that an epicure could not have cavilled at. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
Over his coffee, which he sipped clear with the appreciation of an epicure, the Baron, in his suave, inscrutable way, grew reminiscent. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
When the Gaucho cannot obtain a better meal, the tail of the lizard is not considered such a despicable dish by him, for he is no epicure. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
It is a blue-fish on a big scale, or a Semmes in the sea, hungry as famine, fierce as plague, dainty as a Roman epicure, yet omnivorous as time. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
While he was so employed Mr. Royston descanted freely on the subject of lovely women in the choice of which he declared himself to be an epicure. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Occasionally the sight and powerful odor of hard-boiled and rotten goose eggs, split open to show that they are either rotten or half hatched, attract the Chinese epicure. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The deliberate idler, the whole-hearted epicure, the habitually untruthful man, the miser, the cold egoist -- these and such as these are condemned in enlightened communities. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
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