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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"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
On examination, he found that he had spent enough for provisions on which to gormandize to have lasted eight months, and yet he had been on the route but two and a half months.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
Charley swallows a great gulp of tea in token of submission and so disperses the Druidical ruins that Miss Smallweed charges her not to gormandize, which "in you girls," she observes, is disgusting.
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
They did not gormandize, for gluttony leads to a fit of indigestion, and that leads to bad temper.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
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
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 by Charles Reade
The first day among the hills was spent like the first one on shore—without food, although they had so gormandized themselves on the preceding evening that they were able to stand this privation much better.
From Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The pieces were of a generous size, and after all three had gormandized themselves until, absolutely, they could contain no more, each had some left.
From Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
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Maybe 264 I’ll shoot a bird to-morrow, and then I’ll have a gormandizing jag.”
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
Did they think people could not live without gormandizing as they did?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
He wore away our forks and spoons With hard, incessant gormandizing; The Baker's, and, for some blue moons, The Milkman's bill were quite surprising.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 by Various
Shakespeare warns you to make thy body less, hence thy grace more; leave gormandizing, and know that the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.
From Diet and Health With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters
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