All the extravagant anecdotes of morbid self-love, miserly epicurism, strained courtesy, and frivolous absurdity current used to boast a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

Neither does he thereby recommend a kind of epicurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Those predisposed to epicurism are for the most part of middling height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference

To abstain from enjoyment, is the philosophy of the sage, the epicurism of reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference

He will find, moreover, a system of simple diet to be a system of perfect epicurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

If a man through epicurism or gormandizing has brought on disease, what do you do with him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger] Reference

In her amours she was Lucretia herself; in her epicurism, Apicius would have yielded to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

After dinner -- at which an unwonted and perverse epicurism detained me longer than usual -- I lighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")] Reference

To be jealous of fragmentary composition, -- as epicurism of genius, and apple-pie made all of quinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mansfield Park] Reference

Here women mingle politics and gallantry -- men mix politics and epicurism -- which is the better mixture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 08] Reference

Perhaps I shall not have an opportunity to inculcate my innocent epicurism upon you for a long time again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852] Reference

If I might judge from my own experience, I should attribute fashionable epicurism in a great measure to ennui.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference

The recipes may be thought extravagant in these late hard times -- though epicurism has changed rather than vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference

The grocery approached more nearly than the smithy the grateful epicurism of the Athenaeum, the Reform, or the Carlton.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Midst of Alarms] Reference

There epicurism was in the lip as well as the palate, and one had humour for a hors d'oeuvre and repartee for an entremet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disowned — Complete] Reference

It was not epicurism, however, or a love of the stomach, that induced him to defer his explanations on the present occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crater] Reference

The latter is likely to be occasionally deranged, as in point of epicurism, he has as great a reputation as our celebrated Quin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference

The road that leads to it passes through simple morality and love, not through speculation, and not through religious epicurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

When Shomu reigned at Nara, the Court in Changan had entered the phase of luxury and epicurism which usually preludes the ruin of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Scottish tables were at that period plain and abundant, but epicurism or gluttony do not seem to have been handmaids to drunkenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character]

Dawton, ambition, Guloseton, epicurism -- aye, all but -- of course, reader, you know whom I am about to except -- the ladye of my love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

They incited Christians to a kind of religious epicurism: they were to cut themselves loose from all worldly ties and live in complete isolation of the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.] Reference

He remembers one night that he passed "with the greatest epicurism of sleep," because he was often disturbed, and so got out of sleeping more conscious enjoyment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Leaders] Reference

"Well," thought I, "I must ascertain some point in this man's character easier to handle than his epicurism: all men are vain: let us find out the peculiar vanity of mine host.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

It’s shamefu’ epicurism; but that’s what we hae gotten frae the English pock-puddings.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

A freethinker, but a free thinker whose flexible imagination still allows him the delicate epicurism of religious emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amiel's Journal] Reference

Notwithstanding the proverbial epicurism of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

It's shamefu 'epicurism; but that's what we hae gotten frae the English pock-puddings. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

"epicurism".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference