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  • Some have derided Corvinus as a mere gormandiser with an appetite for all kinds of books.

    The Great Book-Collectors Charles Isaac Elton 1869

  • Was his humble name to be bandied in men's mouths, as the gormandiser of the resources of the poor, as of one who had filched from the charity of other ages wealth which had been intended to relieve the old and the infirm?

    The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

  • 'I'll trouble you for PUNCH, Mr. Wiggins' says the unconscionable old gormandiser, interrupting our friend, who is laughing over the periodical in question.

    The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "Robosaurus" is star gormandiser at Sydney's Royal Easter Show: it roasts automobiles with a snort and goes chomp-chomp.

    The Times of India 2010

  • "Robosaurus" is star gormandiser at Sydney's Royal Easter Show: it roasts automobiles with a snort and goes chomp-chomp.

    The Times of India 2010

  • "Robosaurus" is star gormandiser at Sydney's Royal Easter Show: it roasts automobiles with a snort and goes chomp-chomp.

    The Times of India 2010

  • -- of the secret gormandiser; the lark, the snail tones; the barking tone; the balsam, the marjoram modes; the tawny lion-fell, the faithful pelican modes; the respendent gold-galloon mode!

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • ‘I’ll trouble you for PUNCH, Mr. Wiggins’ says the unconscionable old gormandiser, interrupting our friend, who is laughing over the periodical in question.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Was his humble name to be bandied in men’s mouths, as the gormandiser of the resources of the poor, as of one who had filched from the charity of other ages wealth which had been intended to relieve the old and the infirm?

    The Warden 2004

  • Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art? "

    Don Quixote 2002

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