How To Use Gormandize In A Sentence
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He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.
Les Miserables
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The Scarites gormandized riotously on the peaceable Pimeliæ.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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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
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novel orchard" and to nibble and eat, and even "gormandize," as your fancy leads you.
The Delicious Vice
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At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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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
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A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia.
At Plattsburg
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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
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I want to eat till I am full, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing!
Les Miserables
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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
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He was like an empty wrappers of those fruit filled cookies that in boredom he had gormandized the previous night for they had fallen from his bunk during his restless sleep to be, for a time, caught in the reigning randomness of the fan's winds.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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The other guys who abandoned them claims played hell with the timber -- gormandized the whole lot -- must have gone in for the timber business.
Colorado Jim
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While he gormandized he tormented the shrinking girl with his coarse gallantry.
Bloom of Cactus
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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.
Bleak House
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The father of the new one was a great gormandizer of Pantagruelian dimensions.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
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Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
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O you gormandizer!" said his sister Ellen, "you don't really think the dinner the best part of the day?
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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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.
Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
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English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize.
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
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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.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in
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After all, if one of us finds a carcass to gormandize, we all feast...
Archive 2006-03-19
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Again, there are the phenomena seekers who gormandize on the so-called proofs and demonstrations obtained at materializing séances.
The Master Key System
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Châteaux and villas and splendid rents, all waiting to be gormandized by the State!
The Lure of the Mask
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A greedy gormandizer of books in many languages, he had little of the dainty scholarship so much prized at the neighboring university.
A History of American Christianity
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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.
Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
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She had no pleasures, she incurred no expenses; and was quite alive to the fact that as Aylmer Park required a regiment of lazy, gormandizing servants to maintain its position in the county, the Aylmers themselves should not be lazy, and should not gormandize.
The Belton Estate
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And others enjoy themselves and gormandize themselves with our labor; and they hold us like dogs on chains, in ignorance.
Mother
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Do they not gormandize, do they not what Prudence, do they not rob, each other.
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759
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With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.
Omega, the Man
