gormandizing
Example Sentences
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The perils of gormandising form the present subject.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
The kitchen of each villa certainly was not furnished with such ingenuity, expense or thought as the stories of Roman gormandising would have led us to expect.
From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles
Such instances of gormandising were by no means unfrequent, and, stranger still, in no one case, so far as I knew, followed by any ill consequences.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James
Against this prodigious gormandising we must set that noble gift, the Library presented to Oxford by Duke Humfrey of Gloucester.
From Oxford by Lang, Andrew
Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find a solace in the soup?
From Rhyme? And Reason? by Carroll, Lewis
