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The cant of the voluptuary, the cynical egoist, the friend of humanity, and all the rest is just as distinct as that of the religious sectarian.— Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
But as age and misfortunes stole over the sensual voluptuary, his mental and bodily vigor became impaired, not only by excessive drink, but by the narcotics to which he habitually resorted for excitement.— Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
It had never occurred to him that there might be a sort of family life in a harem; that a pasha or a bey might have daughters as well as wives; or might have only one wife--which is less expensive; and that a harem is not necessarily the heaven of a voluptuary, an elysium of rosy-petalled love and passion.— Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete
Ogul was a voluptuary, ambitious of nothing but good living: he thought that God had sent him into the world for no other purpose than to eat and drink: his physician, who had but little credit with him, when he had a good digestion, governed him with despotic sway, when he had eaten too much On feeling himself much and seriously indisposed by indolence and intemperance, he requested to know what he was to do, and the doctor ordered him to eat a basilisk, stewed in rose water, which he asserted would effect a complete cure.— Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
"Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door Well," said the porter, "he is free to do as he likes about that, sir.— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

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