And when the final blessing of a perfect French cook appeared to make our domestic picture complete, we became utter sybarites, frank worshippers of the splendors of the French cuisine. From LearnThat.org. [Samuel Chamberlain, from ClTmentine in the Kitchen.]
He gives every sign of being a shameless sybarite. From Wordnik.com. ["I've been fascinated... with the attention paid to me by people who really have not undertaken to understand how I succeed, how I define my success."] Reference
In the evening, after happy hour, he turned sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [Ansel Adams at 100] Reference
See this old post where I call him "a shameless sybarite.". From Wordnik.com. [Keith Olbermann calls out Rush Limbaugh for saying why he thinks John Edwards cheated on Elizabeth.] Reference
He gives every sign of being a shameless sybarite. ie. hedonist. From Wordnik.com. [Why did Eric Alterman stop doing Bloggingheads?] Reference
I don't like the way the air's chilling down, sybarite that I am. From Wordnik.com. [Oathblood]
He was not exactly a sybarite, but he liked to do things in style. From Wordnik.com. [do you ever read writing?] Reference
With all her devotion she was something of a sybarite and liked repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Agatha turned off the motor and said, “Look at that wise old sybarite.”. From Wordnik.com. [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference
I'm no sybarite, but I had to admit that it was a pretty bleak sort of place. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
As a travel writer and a sybarite, I have visited numerous spas around the world. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea R. Vaucher: Along For The Ride: Miyako Hybrid Hotel] Reference
No sybarite could have complained of the comfort of the chairs or the arrangement of the light. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
"If you saw my tiny bandbox of a room on the fourth floor you'd realise what a sybarite you are.". From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Folly] Reference
Almost every month he praised the stoic Seneca, yet in the same week he lived like the Roman sybarite Seneca. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
The life he should have lead would have made him a rich sybarite, with European mistresses and fat bank accounts. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
The closest I can come to understanding her point is that she interprets the phrase "shameless sybarite" as unalloyed praise. From Wordnik.com. [Why did Eric Alterman stop doing Bloggingheads?] Reference
It approximates very closely to the old fable of the crumpled rose-leaf breaking the rest of the sybarite on his couch of silk. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
After an evening of excess and a day of regret, even the most committed sybarite can be tempted to take the following night off. From Wordnik.com. [A New Year's Day Bordello] Reference
I am slave who won to freedom, teacher and sportswoman, photosculptor and sybarite, dilettante mathematician and serious athlete. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Then again, this model plays both sides of the disc without having to get up and turn it over, which appeals to my inner sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » Way back there in 16:9] Reference
Up another flight of softly carpeted stairs, across a wide hall, and lo! the abode of the sybarite, the apartments of the disciple of. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Or from a creamy pedestal the marble features of some ancient sybarite regarded without surprise this modern richness based upon the past. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
"You're going to be a regular sybarite," he ventured. From Wordnik.com. [The Rapids] Reference
Stafford suspected him of being something of a sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [Jack O' Judgment] Reference
"Oh, you lazy young sybarite!" cried Joe Emson, as he came up. From Wordnik.com. [Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure] Reference
The name Cockayne was perhaps first given derisively to a sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Surely this selfish Taunton sybarite was the prosaic ideal of Hamlet's words. From Wordnik.com. [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference
The luxurious sybarite could not help the stings of conscience, the odor he might. From Wordnik.com. [What Can She Do?] Reference
He was undoubtedly a sybarite, yet he evidently possessed rare energy and executive force. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
I believe I had rather be that little sybarite than anything that feasts at the board of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
That is nothing, and I am only mentioning it to you so that you should not think I am a sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [Under Western Eyes] Reference
This is a deplorable street, a luxurious couch of a street in which the afternoon lolls like a gaudy sybarite. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
But for the creator and sybarite enjoyer of this sickening boudoir, he would now be in honoured command of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
This hit the sybarite hard, and he cast a bitter glance of hatred at his brother-in-law, and fell into a moody silence. From Wordnik.com. [A Simpleton] Reference
She herself was nothing of a sybarite, and she had proved, visiting the alleys and slums of Boston in the service of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)] Reference
John Barren was a lonely sybarite with a real love for Nature and absolutely primitive instincts with regard to his fellow-creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
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