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These ingenious gluttons had recourse to every experiment that could add to their enjoyment.
A positive glutton of books, he read as instinctively, almost as unconsciously, as other men breathe.
"She would eat enormously, and make herself sick," objected little Nellie Day, a noted glutton.
We have become such gluttons by habit that our tongues are ever craving for abnormal sensations.
It twists and turns like a dancing girl, and the houses bulge out like pot-bellied gluttons.
All the memories of childhood I have is your everlasting cursing and yelling that we were gluttons.
He was too happy to eat, for little Jim, although extremely fond of pudding, was no glutton.
You who, worst of ocean's gluttons, Swallowed man, his boots, and buttons, Cooked in this familiar way?
Such gluttons are apt to think that they are getting more fun out of life than other people.
The dinner came soon enough after his return home to satisfy even Gargantua, who was a great glutton.
Stoddard, that glutton for punishment who had never quit yet, he had looked for something to happen.
I was like a glutton before a table piled high with delicacies and with plenty of time to spare.
Billie was more interested in the other fellow, who happened to be the glutton of that midnight meal.
The confessions of the robber and the glutton are reversed in Whitaker's text, and present many variations.
His answer was, "Don't be such a glutton, you have got one bullet in you, and you want more."
As he lives entirely upon dead animals, he is more of a thief and glutton than a robber and murderer.
Would her ladyship be so good as to tell me in what I have appeared to her to be a mere glutton?
Pierce was right, and that Arabella was only a glutton, I could put in the other things later.
The mind, it has been well said, should be a good, strong, healthy feeder, but not a glutton.
If I were to murmur gluttons, could not they, from their point of view, retort with conviction fool?
When attacked by other animals, the glutton fights desperately, and three stout dogs are scarcely its match.
It ate and ate like a veritable glutton, yet nothing strange or out of the ordinary seemed to happen to it.
As Sir Richard Steele says, 'Gluttons who give high prices for delicacies, are very worthy to be called generous.
I remember that, as a little fellow, he was a dreadful glutton, and he must be fond of eating even now.
And Mother said that I ate like a little glutton and just as if I never had any cake at home.
In steamers do not make a rush for the supper table, or make a glutton of yourself when you get there.
No dog is capable of mastering a glutton, and even the wolf is hardly able to scare it from its prey.
The people came rejoicing, with baskets of food, as though to a wedding or glutton mass rather than to a funeral.
See the young glutton, with the head, the feet, and the inside, permitted to devour it as best he could!
I am sick of the glutton that eats all day and cannot sleep of nights for thinking of his supper.
It seems strange to us, in the light of his great genius, to think what an immense glutton Handel was.
He was often victorious, and quite as often soundly defeated; but he enjoyed campaigning, and was a glutton of work.
Ben occupied the stern of the canoe, being a few pounds heavier than his uncle and a glutton for work.
These, on first perceiving him, spoke of him with contempt as a glutton and a luxurious fellow spoiled by softness.
The man we have now is such a glutton; always has two helpings at dinner and eats half a cake at tea.
Webster was a great glutton, and thought of nothing but his stomach, even up to the very hour of his death.
Like many other human beings, this lad hadn't stuff enough in him for more than one vice; he was a glutton.
There are beef gluttons, who are satisfied with their flesh and liquor, but this is because the meats are so stimulating.
"You wouldn't have me rude to all the people I meet, and I can't help it if the cook thinks I am a glutton."
Even for those gluttons of matter who do not care much for manner there is a good deal in the three stories.
I am filled with anguish that you have come here to see a wise man and a saint, and you see only a glutton.
The musical taste of our people is in the stage of the primitive appetite for noise, and for that they are gluttons.
I remember he was a terrible glutton when he was a boy, and even now, perhaps, he is fond of eating and drinking.
It shows the glutton hunt for the Dollar with no thought for aught else under the sun or over the earth.
When a man is able to stand a great deal of punching without losing consciousness or courage, he is called a "glutton for punishment."
The waiter who serves us has the air of folly, and we have the air of gluttons, it is all the same to us!
Nor can he be allowed to pay any visits, for the manners of a glutton give great offense to all well-bred people.
So, we can hardly be said to be gluttons for tomatoes nor even to meet a fair health standard, even considering all vegetables together.
Rumor said that the sick man had always been a glutton, and that now, at last, his digestion had given way.
These are for the most daring, these for the gluttons, and these for the little ones which are the biggest rogues.
Madden, the tenor, was weak and uncertain yet, as Swanson remarked, "He can't sing much, but he is a glutton for punishment."
Again, no harm is done when a glutton at length upsets his stomach, loses his appetite, and allows the ill-used organ to rest.
The editor, as Adrian Grant had hinted, was no glutton for work, and an hour or two each day appeared to satisfy his taste.
The glutton was right, swine as he was, when he said that not even Heaven could take from him the dinners he had eaten.
Nature quickly restored me to health, and I sought the bread and water with as eager an inclination as a glutton would seek a feast.
I cannot call you now as I once did, a little glutton, since for some time past you eat so little that it is nearly nothing.
"I won't, my love, I won't; and I will try to chew my meat more," replied the very thin glutton, in a feeble tone.
The writer remembers that it was a tradition in his college that the thinnest man of a class was always the biggest glutton.
I sat down at the end of the bench, and, that he might not take me for a glutton, I said nothing about the meal.
When two are seated together at table, the younger shall not partake before the elder, otherwise the younger shall be justly accounted a glutton.
Such a luxury did it appear, that unconsciously he manifested his contentment by that sound the glutton makes at the mention of delicious food.
I sat down at the end of the stone bench, and I kept quiet about my snack so that he wouldn't take me for a glutton.
Such gluttons are they that they are generally loaded with fat on the southward migration, and they are often very fat in the spring.
For when the glutton goes into the tavern, he goes upright; when he comes out, he has not a foot that can sustain or bear him.
Then twelve roasted oxen and twelve tons of bread were brought alongside of the ship, and at one sitting the glutton had devoured it all.
So, with that ease of apparent hospitality, she made her guest as uncomfortable as possible, a glutton for the slightest sign of embarrassment from Sally.
Truth to tell, these beauties are sad gluttons, and they will gorge themselves at times till the very effort of swallowing becomes a delicious pain.
To avoid pain, to sit inert, like a gorged animal, without attempting to think, is the sole desire of the gluttons who are wearied by every repeated excess.
I might end by collecting greasy pence from poor men to buy myself a fine coat and a glutton's dinner, on pretence of serving the poor men.
He had always been a glutton, and it was as if he knew, shells or no shells, that this was to be his last chance for some time.
I should have thought after feasting on the hides of two hundred fellows or more, they might have had the conscience to let me alone, the gluttons!
She was never a glutton for food; excitement dimmed what appetite she had, and her husband, as she knew, hated made dishes with complex sauces.
Neither did the two come into official collision, for Philip was a glutton for work and reached the top of the Modern Side by giant strides.
Hungry men eat like gluttons, but people of refinement are disgusted at it, and they often feel an invincible dislike for a dish, on account of a mere trifle.
She laid down the vessel she bore, and took a great gallon cup, and filled it with brown ale, and offered it him, thinking him a glutton.
Having this world's goods and being able to help the needy, they close their hearts against the unfortunate, as did the rich glutton toward poor Lazarus.
When she saw him the ant began to weep, and all her friends; and the ant remained a widow, because he who is a mouse must be a glutton.
This was a great quantity of fruits of various kinds, roots of some unknown plant, and a good supply of beautiful honey, on which the little gluttons were already feasting.
After calling my dearest friend a fool and a glutton, you send her your love for your own selfish ends; and you expect me to help you in deceiving her!
If a person is not only a glutton, but has beside a bad temper, he is very likely to miss many good things which he might enjoy without much labor.
He had given up drink, but he ate like a glutton, and his thirst for applause was so extreme as to make him appear almost ridiculous when he did not receive it.
He sips a little and then thoroughly mixes it with the saliva, and in that way tastes the delicate aroma which the glutton never knows either in drink or food.
Never before had so grand a wedding been seen, and there was so much food and wine that even the glutton and the thirsty comrade had enough to eat and drink.
Cutting off a thin slice of bread and a thick one of meat, the glutton folded them together carefully, and held the sandwich to his mouth with both hands.
On realizing that the glutton meant to devour them, they determined to escape, so, boiling the skins, which they set before him, they fled through a hole in the hut.
To have seen her, to have seen the expression of her eyes, without knowing her history and without having lived as she had lived, would have been to think her a glutton.
However, he is an old glutton and, thanks to your making way with the remainder of his calf meat this morning, he will be keen enough for another square meal before daylight comes.
To turn glutton and welcome folly as a relief from religion, he said, was the most natural thing in the world, when men had once started in to lead an unnatural life.
Many of the northern Indians would refrain from killing the wolf or the glutton, or if they did so, or did it by accident, they would refuse to skin the animal.
They watched a busy little glutton of a bird hopping about and pulling worms out of the ground, and they wondered how he knew just where to plunge his bill in.
Then, without stopping to thank us for the pleasant visit, off she flew to find another place where she could make a glutton of herself without having to pay or work.
Indeed, a glutton has been known to devour, at a single meal, a great joint of meat, which would have been more than sufficient for a lion or a tiger for a whole day!
The fact that a glutton is dominated by the desire of the pleasures of eating in no way impedes the development in him of the appetite which is a necessary condition of these pleasures.
The author has tried to round off the story by dragging in the ages-old tag about the woman who, from hating the pleasures of love, becomes a veritable glutton for them.
It is thus that man becomes heavy and rude with the ox, filthy and a glutton with the pig, simple with the sheep, courageous and an adept hunter with the dog.
All children may be rendered gluttons; but few, who are properly treated with respect to food, and who have any literary tastes, can be in danger of continuing to be fond of eating.
Loading his vessels with worthless rocks which he believed contained gold enough "to suffice all the gold gluttons of the world," he sailed back to England without leaving the trace of a colony.
"Day before yesterday I had the pleasure of preparing a dish for him; for, in order to have the honor of calling yourself a glutton, you must have a practical acquaintance with the culinary art."
South took that elegant comparison of the joys of a speculative man to the solemn silence of an Archimedes over a problem, and those of a glutton to the stillness of a sow at her wash.
Being greedy and a glutton, he swallowed the first mouthful before he had fairly tasted it, and took a second, and then such a time as there was on the edge of the Green Forest!