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, 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 Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Charles John Kean
Because he paid his half dollar for meals at the taverns on the way, Tilghman seemed to feel himself licensed to gormandize at a beastly rate.
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 by Various
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
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
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
But Rose shopped and gormandized and enjoyed her healthy animal life.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
He never drank to excess, nor gormandized, nor gambled, nor even smoked, nor in any other way wasted the vitality needed for a long and tough grapple with adverse fortune.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton
At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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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"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
"Pig, bullock, goose, must have their goblins too, Else ours would have to go without their dinners: If that starvation doctrine were but true, How hard the fate of gormandizing sinners!"
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
"Yet the prohibition has produced good results, because it has set a limit to gormandizing."
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
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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The Merchant of Venice
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