flesh-pots

But it was not merely his alienness and his growing desire to return to his Chinese flesh-pots that constituted the problem.

Chun Ah Chun 2010

And another thing they learned was that it was easier for one who has gorged at the flesh-pots to content himself with the meagerness of a crust, than for one who has known only the crust.

Chapter XXV 2010

Because if it was money they wanted they should never have left the flesh-pots of Europe for the frozen plains of New England.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

Because if it was money they wanted they should never have left the flesh-pots of Europe for the frozen plains of New England.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

Here and there, it is true, there were atavisms, men who yearned for the flesh-pots and cannibal-feasts of the old alleged “individualism,” creatures long of teeth and savage of claw who wanted to prey upon their fellow-men; but they were looked upon as diseased, and were treated in hospitals.

Goliah 2010

Because if it was money they wanted they should never have left the flesh-pots of Europe for the frozen plains of New England.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

But when one forsakes such intellectual flesh-pots and becomes mere human and male human, in short, a lover, then all he may do, and which is what he cannot help doing, is to yield to the compulsions of being and throw both his arms around love and hold it closer to him than is his own heart close to him.

CHAPTER XLIX 2010

He was a foreigner, doing the tour, I gathered, in the care of some tutor from whom he had managed to slip away to have a peep at the flesh-pots of London.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

As I have said, something was better than nothing, and Bjaaland, Hassel, and Stubberud, who were to return to Lindström's flesh-pots on the following day, were given the task of setting up these marks.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

We took it for granted that they would all rush joyfully home to the flesh-pots, nor did the greater number disappoint us.

The South Pole~ The End of the Winter 2009