gormand

• “This is a spicy sandalwood scent with a gormand edge.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “Then you have your atypical "bad": what musical gormand thought to put Duran Duran's THANK YOU elpee in the mix, as oppose to ANY OTHER DURAN DURAN ALBUM EVER CONCIEVED!”

  joegood Diary Entry

• “The mind will wax fat and unwieldy, like the body of the gormand.”

  The Elements of Character

• “How, then, can it be otherwise than -- gormand that he is -- that he should fare ill with this gluttonous, mammoth digestive canal?”

  Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

• “Sittingbourne, itself a dull, respectable market-town with a boiled mutton and grilled kipper inn which offers no inducements to a gormand to stop for lunch.”

  The Automobilist Abroad

• “Not content with refuse, he pecks open meal sacks, filches whole potatoes, is a gormand for bacon, drills holes in packing cases, and is daunted by nothing short of tin.”

  The Land of Little Rain

• “When United States Senator Garland of Arkansas was asked by an eastern gormand how an opossum should be cooked, he answered:”

  Fagots from the campfire,

• “Mlle. Moiseney had two weaknesses; she was a gormand, and she admired handsome men.”

  Samuel Brohl and Company

• “-- "May it please your Majesty," said the gormand, "to order that old gentleman to take off his spurs, and I will eat him before I begin the hog!”

  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)

• “It seems just now," went on Thorpe, sinking more luxuriously into his armchair, "that this alone is living -- to exist in an environment exquisitely toned; to eat, to drink, to smoke the best, not like a gormand, but delicately as an artist would.”

  The Blazed Trail

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