Gormandizer

Word GORMANDIZER
Character 11
Hyphenation gor mand i zer
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "gormandizer" in example sentences

He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Such was his regard for his patron's memory, that when Sallust described him as having a brazen face, and a shameless mind, he lashed the historian in a most bitter satire [882], as "a bull's-pizzle, a gormandizer, a braggart, and a tippler, a man whose life and writings were equally monstrous;" besides charging him with being "a most unskilful plagiarist, who borrowed the language of Cato and other old writers." ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)

"O you gormandizer!" said his sister Ellen, "you don't really think the dinner the best part of the day?" ❋ Emily Mayer Higgins (N/A)

With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate. ❋ Lowell Howard Morrow (N/A)

But to his surprise and dismay the guest barely touched most of the dishes, and ate so sparingly of others that Burns felt himself, with his hearty, normal appetite, a gormandizer. ❋ Unknown (1912)

A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia. ❋ Allen French (1908)

The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions. ❋ Various (1904)

A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university. ❋ 1830-1907 (1897)

Lurking beneath the rich and tempting viands were invisible spirits of evil, which filled the self-deluded gormandizer with aches and pains, passions uncontrollable, fierce tempers, dyspepsia, rheumatism, lumbago, and gout, and of these the Lloyds had a full share. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god." ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)

At length his place was found vacant at meal-time; no one knew when he went off, or whither he had gone, but he was seen no more, and the vast surplus that remained when the repast was over, showed what a mighty gormandizer had departed. ❋ Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (1850)

Borne down by the weight of his spoil, the feathered gormandizer alighted on the water -- rested himself for a moment -- rose again, and re-alighted -- and in this manner, with many such intervals of repose, made his way to the shore. ❋ Horatio Bridge (1849)

With the morning, the subject of his recent adventures called forth fresh scintillations of waggish wit, — while the unrivalled capacity of our hero, as a gormandizer, gave cue to the cuts that followed: ❋ Unknown (1841)

At length, abandoning all hope of effecting the desired reformation, they set upon the offending bird, nor relinquished their purpose till the life of the luckless gormandizer had expiated the crime of his unravenlike conduct, and his executioners were left to enjoy their daily repasts without the annoyance of his presence. ❋ Unknown (1841)

One of them (more brutal than his fellows, and the most notorious gormandizer in the crew) said such a cruel and wicked thing, that I wonder the mere thought did not turn him into a wild beast, in shape, as he already was in his nature. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

You would have thought you heard some gormandizer dilating upon the roasting a savory goose at ❋ Unknown (1824)

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