Antonia D. said, "Is it not amazing that the moment I have read the word esurient a trace of something I knew pressed me to bring it back to life again (that is, to ...". From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
It had been a relief for Ted after Connie's death, not to mention after the esurient pursuing by other women to which he'd been exposed, to find himself in the company of a woman who wanted to build a structure first before taking up residence within it. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Eight credits per week went to the company, in advance, for room and board; the rest he spent over the fat man's bar or gambled away at the fat man's crooked games-for Bominger, although engaged in vaster commerce far, nevertheless allowed no scruple to interfere with his esurient rapacity. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
Hercules not yet furibund, -- he is an esurient, unprovided Advocate. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
If you are feeling esurient, a cheese shop is the best place to purchase cheesy comestibles. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
MMOtaku's esurient readers, those who foregather the journal every day, those who become and go for a pane of. From Wordnik.com. [www.awesomeblogs.com] Reference
I'd rather burn my credit rating to the ground than let these esurient blood-sucking leeches continue to drain me of my hard-earned money. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Tape Chronicles] Reference
An esurient international bureaucracy found a natural ally in Western officialdom, itself determined to mine the deepest resources of human enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Oscar -- the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar -- with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions ... of others!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
"Oscar -- the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar -- with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .... of others!". From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]
You might find yourself in bed dreaming on the molecular level why you're sheet aren't rigid or how anything moves or how this esurient science might make the universe more mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [Tangible Ghosts] Reference
Saint-Antoine, baulked, esurient, pounces on the slain warhorse; flays it; roasts it, with such fuel, of paling, gates, portable timber as can be come at, -- not without shouting: and, after the manner of ancient Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The British spelling with oe -, keeping to the Latin rendering of the Greek oisophagos, has the merit of not suggesting a connexion of the first element with the Latin past-participial stem eso - (cf. esurient, obese) from edere ` eat. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference
It is to be hoped that a numerous and enterprising generation of writers will follow and surpass the present one; but it would be better if the stream were stayed, and the roll of our old, honest English books were closed, than that esurient book-makers should continue and debase a brave tradition, and lower, in their own eyes, a famous race. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in the Art of Writing] Reference
He will be living on a great flat earth -- unless some officious person has tried to muddle his wits by telling him the earth is round; amidst trees, animals, men, houses, engines, utensils, that are all capable of being good or naughty, all fond of nice things and hostile to nasty ones, all thumpable and perishable, and all conceivably esurient. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
He will be living on a great flat earth — unless some officious person has tried to muddle his wits by telling him the earth is round; amidst trees, animals, men, houses, engines, utensils, that are all capable of being good or naughty, all fond of nice things and hostile to nasty ones, all thumpable and perishable, and all conceivably esurient. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
He drew tears from them with the pathos of his picture of the bereaved widow Mabey and her three starving, destitute children -- "orphaned to avenge the death of a pheasant" -- and the bereaved mother of that M. de Vilmorin, a student of Rennes, known here to many of them, who had met his death in a noble endeavour to champion the cause of an esurient member of their afflicted order. From Wordnik.com. [Scaramouche] Reference
H. Bruce Franklin gives a chronology of the march into Afghanistan New Shockwaves From Courts and Accounting Board The Next Financial Crisis H.ts Wall Street, as Judges Start Nixing Foreclosures he financial tsunami unleashed by Wall Street's esurient alchemy of spinning toxic home mortgages into triple-A bonds, a process known as securitization, has set off its second round of financial tremors. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
“Oscar — the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar — with no more sense of. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
“Oscar ” the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar ” with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions ... of others!”. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
"There's reason to believe that the Feds have expanded and escalated this ongoing enterprise to exploit, and exacerbate, growing public hostility toward an increasingly invasive and esurient government. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference
In the meantime, as William Norman Grigg opines, "There's reason to believe that the Feds have expanded and escalated this ongoing enterprise to exploit, and exacerbate, growing public hostility toward an increasingly invasive and esurient government. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
The clamourings of esurient Viennese. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919] Reference
Mood: esurient. From Wordnik.com. [Eating meat] Reference
How did esurient. From Wordnik.com. [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference
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