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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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
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
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
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
But Rose shopped and gormandized and enjoyed her healthy animal life.
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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 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
They jess sot thar, an' gormandized on waffles an' batter-cakes, an' didn't call no names.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
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
The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.
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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
But, amid gormandizing, Serlo entertained another plan, which he longed to have fulfilled.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Social glasses of wine are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing my utter scorn and contempt.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing “jag,” he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
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