gormandize

How To Use gormandize In A Sentence

• He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Les Miserables
• The Scarites gormandized riotously on the peaceable Pimeliæ. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
• His frame a trifle stouter than when we last saw him, but still supple and firm; the set of the shoulders, the taper of the body to the waist, the keen but passive face, the poise of the whole figure was that of one who, tasting of the goodness of life, had not gormandized thereon. The Cow Puncher
• novel orchard" and to nibble and eat, and even "gormandize," as your fancy leads you. The Delicious Vice
• At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
• 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. De vita Caesarum
• A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia. At Plattsburg
• 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. Mrs. Red Pepper
• I want to eat till I am full, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! Les Miserables
• 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. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour