gourmandizing

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Alfred's son Fritz was a pudgy, gourmandizing sybarite, who fattened Kruppdom by gobbling up coal and iron mines and the shipyards at Kiel.

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Tensions and insecurities may have something to do with Pavarotti's gourmandizing too, quite beyond his sensual gusto and need to replenish himself.

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Mao's womanizing, gourmandizing and peculiar personal habits�his aversion to bathing and teeth brushing, for instance�surfaced in the entertaining 1994 memoir by his physician Li Zhisui.

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Limburger research got going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread.

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The former assist us by their voracious appetites, that can only be satisfied with gourmandizing upon other insects, particularly the juicy bodies of their larvæ.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.