10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GORMANDISER»
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1
The Conquest of Happiness
... that he may come to know all there is to know about the particular matter that
has become his hobby. It will be remembered that among our different types at
the banquet we included the gormandiser, whom we were not pre- pared to
praise.
... gero, to carry : ger ffw-o, [the carrying one], carrier. incubo, to lie upon : ...incub
incub-o, [the one lying upon], guardian of hid treasure ; nightmare. lurcor, to
gormandise: lurc lurc-o, [the gormandising one], gormandiser. prcedor, to plunder
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John Tahourdin White, 1858
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the london medical repository monthly journall and review
How unfortunate for their country, and perhaps the world, that Paley and Johnson
(for Johnson too was a gormandiser) should have been so partial to animal food !
Had a light vegetable diet clarified their intellects, instead of the commonplace ...
4
Colonial Magazine and East India Review
When age begins to wear upon long-established fields, there is a peculiar branch
to which they become subject, and that is what is termed the " gormandiser" —
not a bad cognomen certainly, for it sucks voraciously all aliment from the ...
Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston, 1846
5
Food in the Arts: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on ...
The ultimate food episode in Dead Souls concerns the gormandiser Petukh: a
veritable 'foodie' whose whole life is centred on organizing menus, with superb
ingredients supplied by his bountiful estate. Chichikov comes to his estate in
error, ...
6
A New Abridgment of Ainsworth's Dictionary: English and ...
Lurco, On», m. a glutton, a belly-god, a greedy-gut, a great eater, a paunchrbelly,
a gormandiser. Lurldus, a, um. ad}, pale, wan, fristjf, ghastly, black and lue,
dismal. LOror, OrU. m. paleness, wan- Luicluia, л. f. a nightingale. Luiclniola, я. f.
a ...
7
The Works: In Five Volumes
... got large revenues by th' invention, Whose fat example the nobility follow'd; Nor
do we imitate that arch-gormandiser With two-and-twenty courses at one dinner,
And, betwixt every course, he and his guests Wash'd and us'd women, then sat ...
Thomas Middleton, Alexander Dyce, 1840
8
Ruined Cities Within Numidian and Carthaginian Territories
... and viands of the best description — on seeing all this, I confess, our
satisfaction was great. Neither of us was a gormandiser, but every one of us A
SUMPTUOUS SUPPER 165 was heartily sick of the nauseous 164 RUINED
CITIES.
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A general Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the ...
A gormandiser. Gymnastick, djìm-uás-tlk, a. Relatìng to athíetick exercises.
Gynecocracy, djî-ne-kok-ra-sy, s. Female power, petticont governineut. Gyration,
djî-ra-shûn, s. The act of turning any tlting about. Gyre, djire, s. A circle, ring, t
rance.
Stephen Jones, Thomas Sheridan, 1812
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Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922) and Caroline Hitch Takamine ...
Nevertheless he is an enormous gormandiser. After eating, he takes some
takadiastase for his stomach.” One of Japan's most famous novelists, Natsume
Soseki lived 1867-1916. 200. Bennitt, Mark. 1905. History of the Louisiana
Purchase ...
William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, 2012
