gormandizer

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The gormandizer gorged with meat and strong drink, a fruitful source of savage outbursts, could not possess the gentleness of the ascetic who dips his bread into a cup of milk.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen

A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

Paul hated him as a trespasser and a gormandizer.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence