glutton

• Therefore I dreamed I was feasting at some table luxuriously loaded, where, eating like a glutton, the whole company were astonished to see me, while my imagination was heated by the sensation of famine. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
• He ate and drank with them, and was called a glutton and a drunkard (Luke 7: 34). —  Think Progress
• For the purposes of the Bill, a glutton was denned as 'one who habitually devotes himself to the pleasures of the table to such a degree that he might arouse discontent in view of the distressful condition of the population.' —  Mises Dailies
• It is a perfect glutton, and most indiscriminate in its feeding; nothing comes amiss to it; it lives chiefly upon carrion, the smaller native animals, and occasionally attacks sheep, principally, however, lambs and the weakly or diseased; even one of its own kind, caught in a snare, is attacked and devoured without mercy. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• He is fierce and extremely voracious--quite as much so as the "glutton," of which he is the American representative. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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