"Gourmand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mark the phlebotomist:—He walks sideling along; he is proud; he stoops awhile before seating himself; he has an envious and evil eye; he is a gourmand, but he defecates little at a time; he is suspected of incontinence, robbery, ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... for any allusion to the feast instantly brought back that owl-like gourmand to whom he was ...
— The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... schooled? Ah! thine was not the temper or the taste For thrones; the table sees thee better placed: A mild Epicurean, formed, at best, 520 To be a kind host and as good a guest, To talk of Letters, and to know by heart One half the Poet's, all the Gourmand's art; A scholar always, now and then a wit, And gentle when Digestion may permit;— But not to govern lands enslaved or free; The gout was martyrdom enough ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... elaborate and expensive glutton surely exceeds that of the child of nature who gorges himself on the flesh which he has taken in hunting: not to mention that the child of nature costs humanity nothing, whereas the gourmand devours the labour of the French cook and probably that of a ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith
... privilege, and to remedy the evil he has occasioned to the best of his power if Mr. Dawkins will do him the favor to partake of the contents of the accompanying case (from Strasbourg direct, and the gift of a friend, on whose taste as a gourmand Mr. Dawkins may rely), perhaps he will find that it is not a bad substitute for the plat which Mr. Deuceace's ...
— Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush - The Yellowplush Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray |
