| 单词 | gormandise |
| 例句 | Short time was allowed them for this greedy gormandising. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Not for a long time have they had such an opportunity of gormandising. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find a solace in the soup? Rhyme? And Reason? Such instances of gormandising were by no means unfrequent, and, stranger still, in no one case, so far as I knew, followed by any ill consequences. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The sparrow was a greedy little bird, and she had seen him gormandise in Sapps Court. When Ghost Meets Ghost “Here you will find no guttling or gormandising, no turtle or nightingales’ tongues,” said the extravagant, whose name, by the way, was Dalmahoy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) But a little more haggling, a little more tramping, a little more mending, and a little less gorging and gormandising! Ghetto Comedies Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandise to repletion. The Toilers of the Field We conclude, therefore, that unusual powers of gormandising, being useful, come at last to be cultivated as praiseworthy. The Dog Crusoe and his Master The perils of gormandising form the present subject. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 “At all events, you might have brought away my epaulets,” replied he; “but you youngsters think of nothing but gormandising.” Peter Simple As for the rooks, they ate until they could hardly move, and gormandised in a way that could only be excused in things that could not get their meals at regular times. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn Even their handwriting is the 'very vilest form of scribbling which exists in Europe,' and they and the Germans are 'the two most gormandising races in Europe.' Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) From this "Golden Treasury" of gormandising I have been permitted to cull a few recipes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 Is not asceticism superior epicureanism, fasting, refined gormandising? Over Strand and Field There was no gormandising with me, no handsome slaves in waiting, and at my table your sons saw more seemliness than at head-quarters. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History She was much shocked at the low standard of morality prevailing amongst the white men in the colony, and disgusted at the perpetual gormandising and drunkenness. Here, There and Everywhere It sounds like a record of three gormandising middle-aged men; but it was not quite that, though, like most French people, they appreciated artistic cookery. The Days Before Yesterday Against this prodigious gormandising we must set that noble gift, the Library presented to Oxford by Duke Humfrey of Gloucester. Oxford Gutley was the only fellow in the school who remained faithful to him, and he sat on the counter—the great gormandising brute!—eating tarts the whole day. Men's Wives The kitchen of each villa certainly was not furnished with such ingenuity, expense or thought as the stories of Roman gormandising would have led us to expect. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire I put out of the question the stale topics of complaint, such as leaving home, encouraging gormandising and luxurious habits, etc.; but look also at the dealings of club-men with one another. Men's Wives |
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