eat to excess
Example Sentences
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One might eat to excess, or drink to excess; yet eating and drinking are both useful in their way.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
An American physician remarks, "For every reeling drunkard that disgraces our Country, it contains one hundred gluttons;—persons, I mean, who eat to excess, and suffer in consequence."
From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther
Mr. Stuart was fearful that in their famished state they would eat to excess and injure themselves.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
Those who eat to excess often eat more than three times a day.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
They are cunning and powerful, and formidable in combat, but, greedy in habit, they eat to excess, and when gorged to satiety fall an easy prey to their enemies.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
