trencher-man

• “Mr. Wagg, the celebrated wit, and a led captain and trencher-man of my Lord Steyne, was caused by the ladies to charge her; and the worthy fellow, leering at his patronesses and giving them a wink, as much as to say, “Now look out for sport,” one evening began an assault upon Becky, who was unsuspiciously eating her dinner.”

  Vanity Fair

• “To be the servant and companion of a fugitive, a soldier, and a murderer rolled in one -- to live by stratagems, disguises, and false names, in an atmosphere of midnight and mystery so thick that you could cut it with a knife -- was really, I believe, more dear to him than his meals, though he was a great trencher-man and something of a glutton besides.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “He was a very valiant trencher-man; and yet he could not have been said to love eating for eating's sake.”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

• “For the first time in more years than he could remember he merely toyed with his food ... and he had always been a good trencher-man.”

  Man of Many Minds

• “Bertram, in complaisance, ate a morsel or two; and Dinmont, whose appetite was unabated either by wonder, apprehension, or the meal of the morning, made his usual figure as a trencher-man.”

  Chapter LIII

• “Thou art indeed a valiant trencher-man," she said.”

  The Puritan Twins

• “The Highlander hesitated after the first round of distribution, for there would be no means of revictualing that haversack until the next issuance of rations, and he was himself a "very valiant trencher-man.”

  The Frontiersmen

• “Mr. Fetherbee's spirits, and ten minutes later the valiant little trencher-man was climbing with cheerful alacrity into the wagon, which had been, in the interim, subjected to a judicious application of ropes and wires.”

  Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book

• “I have tried his favorite restaurant here, the cuisine of which is famous far beyond the banks of the Seine; but I think if he, hearty trencher-man that he was, had lived in Paris, he would have gone to London for a dinner oftener than he came here.”

  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

• “I remember his proving himself, what would have been called in the olden times he delighted to portray, "a stout trencher-man.”

  Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

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