gormandizer

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Thus fared the old diluvians: arrant gormandizers and beef-bolters.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

In fact, he hated gormandizers as men of too gross selfishness, as well as all living larders, where layers of fat crush in the spirit, as masses of snow do a house.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

These gormandizers will eat you the very life out of a copy so soon as ever it appears, for as the times go, Original and Abridgement are almost reckoned as necessary as man and wife.'

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

"You well know what gormandizers they were," replied Quicksilver; and, rogue that he was, he could not help laughing at the joke.

From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Trees, after being topped, throw off suckers, which are called gormandizers, from each joint, but more especially at the head.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.