gormandizer

Example Sentences

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With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.

From Omega, the Man by Morey, Leo

But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer.

From Mrs. Red Pepper by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

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

The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.

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