gormandize
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Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."
From Time Magazine Archive
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What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
"Well done, Brother Gabriel!" added Maria; "Manuel shall not be the demon tempter with his rebellious spirit, to incite you to gormandize."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
Others acknowledged their mortality and so they told themselves they would gormandize while the feast was on the table.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley
Squirrels sat upon the logs near by and gormandized and chattered.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
The signoras and signorinas fell upon them and gormandized; but the signors eyed them with reasonable suspicion.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
The first day among the hills was spent like the first one on shore—without food, although they had so gormandized themselves on the preceding evening that they were able to stand this privation much better.
From Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The pieces were of a generous size, and after all three had gormandized themselves until, absolutely, they could contain no more, each had some left.
From Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
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The Ool, or Oily sandwich:—rare gormandizing then; for oily it was called, because of fat old joints, and hams, and rounds, and barons of sea-beeves and walrusses, which then crowned the stratum-board.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
"We were only waiting for you to finish gormandizing."
From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by John Campbell
He was an easy, gormandizing, good fellow, shapelessly fat, and he never had stirred himself during his month of freedom to do any courting.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Angela succeeds in getting the keys of the convent from Gil-Perez, the porter, who had also left his post, seduced by his love of gormandizing and had come to pay court to Claudia.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
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