"O you gormandizer!" said his sister Ellen, "you don't really think the dinner the best part of the day?". From Wordnik.com. [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference
With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate. From Wordnik.com. [Omega, the Man] Reference
The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference
You would have thought you heard some gormandizer dilating upon the roasting a savory goose at. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Christianity] Reference
You would have thought you heard some gormandizer dilating upon the roasting a savory goose at Michaelmas as he described the roasting of some Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Red Pepper] Reference
Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god.". From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
With the morning, the subject of his recent adventures called forth fresh scintillations of waggish wit, — while the unrivalled capacity of our hero, as a gormandizer, gave cue to the cuts that followed. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Borne down by the weight of his spoil, the feathered gormandizer alighted on the water -- rested himself for a moment -- rose again, and re-alighted -- and in this manner, with many such intervals of repose, made his way to the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
The famous city-gormandizer, Sir William Curtis, accompanied this expedition, thus making one, as it were, of a party of pleasure, while, from exhaustion and disease, the troops were perishing in the pestilential swamps of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2] Reference
At length his place was found vacant at meal-time; no one knew when he went off, or whither he had gone, but he was seen no more, and the vast surplus that remained when the repast was over, showed what a mighty gormandizer had departed. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
Lurking beneath the rich and tempting viands were invisible spirits of evil, which filled the self-deluded gormandizer with aches and pains, passions uncontrollable, fierce tempers, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lumbago, and gout, and of these the Lloyds had a full share. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference
At length, abandoning all hope of effecting the desired reformation, they set upon the offending bird, nor relinquished their purpose till the life of the luckless gormandizer had expiated the crime of his unravenlike conduct, and his executioners were left to enjoy their daily repasts without the annoyance of his presence. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
But maybe you did -- you're sech a gormandizer, "said Sneak. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described] Reference
But maybe you did ” you're sech a gormandizer,” said Sneak. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Western Scenes]
Anecdote of a gormandizer, 314. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
Paul hated him as a trespasser and a gormandizer. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
"Hard luck, old gormandizer. From Wordnik.com. [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference
Five, then, if not six, the old gormandizer. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Slowcoach] Reference
A gormandizer too you see, as full as any sack, ". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
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