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."
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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
Indeed, very frequently when he did not get permission to gormandize, this naughty glutton helped himself without leave.
From Holiday House A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair
And how I gormandize on hardtack baked in the first place for the Revolutioners, and kept over ever since.
From Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures by John McElroy
Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandize to repletion.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant
In that stronghold of gluttony, he gormandized more than ever, and, being unable to talk it off his stomach, as in other cities, had apoplexy, and died.
From A Simpleton 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 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
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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Angela succeeds in getting the keys of the convent from Gil-Perez, the porter, who had also left his post, seduced by his love of gormandizing and had come to pay court to Claudia.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
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
"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
He was one of countless individuals marked for a tidbit to glut the gormandizing of a trust.
From Making People Happy by Harrison Fisher
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