gourmandizing

Though she begins by looking for a simple gourmandizing high, Ms. Bone ends her odyssey elegantly, discovering that mushrooms may be the most important—and most hopeful—ingredient of life on Earth.

What's Magic About Mushrooms Richard Mabey 2011

Listen to John Parker, though, and you almost wonder if we're celebrating the wrong man: "Darwin was an indolent, beetle-collecting, drinking, gourmandizing nobody."

How an Evolutionary Garden Grows 2009

Other tales of Hugo's prodigious powers encompass not only his gourmandizing, but also his colossal appetite for the opposite sex.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2005

Other tales of Hugo's prodigious powers encompass not only his gourmandizing, but also his colossal appetite for the opposite sex.

THE SCRIBE WHO SHAGGED ME TEV 2005

And the pity of it is this — that a man, if he will only restrain his greed, may eat his cake and yet have it; aye, and in so doing will have twice more the flavour of the cake than he who with gourmandizing maw will devour his dainty all at once.

Framley Parsonage 2004

To praise the fumes too highly, or to inhale too deeply is considered low behavior and leaves the guilty person open to suspicions of gourmandizing.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

My sanitarium diet had not prepared me for such gourmandizing as this and I ate steadily while Maxil talked.

Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

Englishmen learned of him their excessiue gourmandizing & vnmeasurable filling of their panches with meates and drinkes, whereby they forgat the vertuous vse of sobrietie, so much necessarie to all estates and degrées, so profitable for all common-wealthes, and so commendable both in the sight of God, and all good men.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

The damsel apprehending that such interruptions to their interviews might, from the gourmandizing propensities of the favourite, be frequent, determined to prevent them for ever; the very next time that puss, as usual, followed her, seizing with savage exultation the harmless creature, she severed with a huge carving knife, its head from its body!

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 Various

The gourmandizing promised to be chiefly at the criminal tables; and before long it was noted that the noxious gentlemen were gradually drifting back to their native sand dunes, and the rough-riding gave way to a more orderly style of horsemanship.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921