gormandize

Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well done, Brother Gabriel!" added Maria; "Manuel shall not be the demon tempter with his rebellious spirit, to incite you to gormandize."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since.

From Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures by John McElroy

The dog's stomach is so subject to be deranged that few of these creatures can afford to gormandize; to which failing, however, they are much inclined.

From The Dog by Dinks

What title to gormandize over the butcher's fat joints, and the baker's quartern loaves, if they who furnish them are left to gnaw bones, and live upon crumbs?

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Squirrels sat upon the logs near by and gormandized and chattered.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

The signoras, and signorinas, fell upon them and gormandized; but the signors eyed them with reasonable suspicion.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

In that stronghold of gluttony, he gormandized more than ever, and, being unable to talk it off his stomach, as in other cities, had apoplexy, and died.

From A Simpleton by Charles Reade

He never drank to excess, nor gormandized, nor gambled, nor even smoked, nor in any other way wasted the vitality needed for a long and tough grapple with adverse fortune.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton

Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clumsy, gormandizing clowns, fond of practical jokes, especially such as stealing eatables and drinkables.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

He was one of countless individuals marked for a tidbit to glut the gormandizing of a trust.

From Making People Happy by Harrison Fisher

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

Social glasses of wine are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing my utter scorn and contempt.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe