"novel orchard" and to nibble and eat, and even "gormandize," as your fancy leads you. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicious Vice] Reference
Do they not gormandize, do they not what Prudence, do they not rob, each other. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759] Reference
And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Again, there are the phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and demonstrations obtained at materializing séances. From Wordnik.com. [The Master Key System] Reference
I would gormandize on bedrooms, -- like Cromwell resting in a different one every night, -- and the empty ones filling with forlornest of females, provided one need not do the honors at their table in the morning and hear how they have slept. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
How certain of the winter birds gormandize on the resinous, spicy little berries!. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize.". From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
I want to eat till I am full, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius] Reference
It's too hot to gormandize; I wasn't astonished when he collapsed at the steep place on the last walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Portage] Reference
I want this ennui to finally gormandize me, obliterate me, vellicate me until my bones break from the shaking. From Wordnik.com. [Art of Starving] Reference
Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
Moreover, the father betrays certain tendencies to gormandize not altogether in harmony with the profession of an ascetic. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
The epistle was written chiefly to the Greeks, the masses of which people were very social, and inclined to carouse and gormandize. From Wordnik.com. [Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost] Reference
Singers also are proverbially prone to gormandize; and though the Bird of Paradise unfortunately possessed the smallest mouth in all Singingland, it is astonishing how she pecked!. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4] Reference
Men form the first group at the banquet, and women, and children and dogs all come together at the next, and these gormandize and glut themselves to an enormous extent, though the men very seldom do. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
She had no pleasures, she incurred no expenses; and was quite alive to the fact that as Aylmer Park required a regiment of lazy, gormandizing servants to maintain its position in the county, the Aylmers themselves should not be lazy, and should not gormandize. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
Busino says that fruits were seldom served at dessert, but that the whole population were munching them in the streets all day long, and in the places of amusement; and it was an amusement to go out into the orchards and eat fruit on the spot, in a sort of competition of gormandize between the city belles and their admirers. From Wordnik.com. [For Whom Shakespeare Wrote] Reference
The answer was that Allen’s blood-ties were with his own kind, who sought not only to gormandize the Middle-East, but to monopolize America. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » George Allen in stock disclosure controversy.] Reference
I go to bed as soon as it gets dark¾that saves the expence of candles, and rise as soon as I can see; wash my own linen and patch my clothes myself: find the good of living in this way¾save my money; invite no friends, to eat, and drink, and gormandize, and devour me; keep no servants to waste my substance, which, thanks be to Heaven and my own industry! amounts to¾but no matter for that. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
All that the fambly could gormandize till Sunday!. From Wordnik.com. [Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith] Reference
See with foup-hdies devils gormandize. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
Do not gormandize. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
4. gormandize. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
Can't, like ripe age, in gormandize excel. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
I can gormandize and read aloud both at once. ". From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
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