gormandizer

• “He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.”

  Les Miserables

• “With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.”

  Omega, the Man

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “A gormandizer from a neighboring squad has lately been very savage on account of dyspepsia.”

  At Plattsburg

• “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

• “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

• “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 His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston

• “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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