Adjective : voluptuary tastes. From Dictionary.com.
I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of. From Wordnik.com. [The Kreutzer Sonata] Reference
I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker. From Wordnik.com. [The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription]] Reference
"Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.". From Wordnik.com. [Bohemians of the Latin Quarter] Reference
The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion] Reference
He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
But he had already realised the tragedy of the voluptuary, which is, after a little time, not that he must go on living, but that he cannot live in two places at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Max Beerbohm] Reference
Now the apostle may be a voluptuary without much conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
“Ahl Zauk” is a man of pleasure, a voluptuary, a hedonist. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
This inscription was composed by a voluptuary of the school of Petronius. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
“Bid the slave-merchant enter,” says the Turkish voluptuary with a wave of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
With the face of an ascetic, he was, in all the failing blood of him, a frank voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 32] Reference
A thrill of admiration suffused with a deeper tint even the abhorred cheek of the voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
This was lost upon an audience insufficiently familiar with the works of that great voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917] Reference
In that voluptuary Edward of England — in the inebriated Wenceslaus of Germany — in Scotland? —. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
He was represented as being contented with simple pleasures, being neither an ascetic nor a voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
The venerable voluptuary keeps himself in countenance for his lascivious vein, by writing as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
This was refused by the indolent voluptuary; so we parted with coolness, and I was once more adrift in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Impossible, says you; even the coarsest voluptuary (guilty, m'lud) couldn't have failed to recognise her, surely?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
The fickle voluptuary sought new pleasures, and the bride so lately exalted to a throne was no longer an object of envy. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference
With arts voluptuary I couple practices joculary; for the deceiving of the senses is one of the pleasures of the senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
Nature must ever be the standard of taste, the gauge of appetite — yet how grossly is nature insulted by the voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
By his way of glancing at a young woman one may at once recognize a voluptuary; and I became a voluptuary, and I have remained one. From Wordnik.com. [The Kreutzer Sonata] Reference
It is a set of unscripted rituals and contortions wherein human beings can adopt extraordinary guises: brute, swan, tease, voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion: On Sex in Fiction] Reference
Just as the drunkard and the victim of the morphine habit may be recognized by their face and manner, so we may recognize a voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [The Kreutzer Sonata] Reference
For a moment he abandoned himself to the enchanting witchery with the dreamful enjoyment of the voluptuary inhaling the odors of a scented bath. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Such were the thoughts that passed through the mind of the disgusting old voluptuary, while his lying tongue gave utterance to words like the following. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
The thin-lipped mouths were from the same mould, but George's lips were firm and muscular, while Al's were soft and loose -- the lips of an ascetic turned voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [CREATED HE THEM] Reference
His retired life was, in fact, that of a voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Lucullus, autocrat and voluptuary as he was, governed his province well. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Now am I relapsed into all the dissatisfied repinement of a true English grumbling voluptuary. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Perhaps the satiety of the voluptuary had something to do with the recklessness with which at the last he neglected to guard his life. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
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