gormandizer

Example Sentences

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With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.

From Omega, the Man by Morey, Leo

But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer.

From Mrs. Red Pepper by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

The “lunch” turned out to be a seven course dinner and each course introduced such an enticing and unusual dish that every member of the party became an audacious gormandizer.

From Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

The Frenchman is ravenous for the theatrical situation,—a perfect gormandizer of the dramatic event.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore

The prospectus said that the best and most wholesome food would be served out to us in abundance, and to look at the bill of fare one would think it enough to satisfy any gormandizer.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald