voluptuary

• “I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of”

  The Kreutzer Sonata

• “I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker.”

  The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription]

• “Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.”

  My Aunt Margaret's Mirror

• “He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor.”

  Famous Affinities of History — Complete

• “But he had already realised the tragedy of the voluptuary, which is, after a little time, not that he must go on living, but that he cannot live in two places at once.”

  The Works of Max Beerbohm

• “*The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.”

  The Revolutionist’s Handbook

• “The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.”

  Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion

• “Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.”

  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

• “Sir Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.”

  Waverley Novels — Volume 12

• “Newhouse set of not one, not two but three chaises longues, which do hint at the reclining so regularly practiced by voluptuary Romans as their civilization advanced down history's slippery slope.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" is Red-Hot

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