gormandizing
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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This fairy tale of a gormandizing people contains no mention of Thanksgiving Day.
From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Dickinson, Asa Don
After gormandizing about five pounds, and getting a few whiffs at Mat's old stone pipe, I took his nest under the log, and slept a few hours sound as a pig of lead.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Shakespeare warns you to make thy body less, hence thy grace more; leave gormandizing, and know that the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.
From Diet and Health With Key to the Calories by Peters, Lulu Hunt
You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.
From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore