gormandize
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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
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And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
From Mother by Maksim Gorky
Well, thou shalt see; thy eyes shall be thy judge, The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:— What, Jessica!—Thou shalt not gormandize, As thou hast done with me;—What, Jessica!—
From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Their power to gormandize seems unlimited, and the number of insects they can swallow without protest is almost incredible.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Margaret Warner Morley
Singers also are proverbially prone to gormandize; and though the Bird of Paradise unfortunately possessed the smallest mouth in all Singingland, it is astonishing how she pecked!
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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
But Rose shopped and gormandized and enjoyed her healthy animal life.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
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 by Charles Reade
The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
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"At all events, you might have brought away my epaulettes," replied he; "but you youngsters think of nothing but gormandizing."
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
You might call it a marsh; but there was no mud, no dark slimy water, no stagnant scum; there were no rank yellow lilies, no gormandizing frogs, no swinish mud-turtles.
From Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson
The Ool, or Oily sandwich:—rare gormandizing then; for oily it was called, because of fat old joints, and hams, and rounds, and barons of sea-beeves and walrusses, which then crowned the stratum-board.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
He was an easy, gormandizing, good fellow, shapelessly fat, and he never had stirred himself during his month of freedom to do any courting.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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