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From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

After dinner—at which an unwonted and perverse epicurism detained me longer than usual—I lighted a cigar and paced the piazza, minutely attentive to the aspect and business of a very ordinary village.

From Other Tales and Sketches (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

After dinner--at which an unwonted and perverse epicurism detained me longer than usual--I lighted a cigar and paced the piazza, minutely attentive to the aspect and business of a very ordinary village.

From Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by Elson, William H.

When Shomu reigned at Nara, the Court in Changan had entered the phase of luxury and epicurism which usually preludes the ruin of a State.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

In such cases knowledge produces but a passing impression; a sensation, but no more; it is, in fact, the merest epicurism of intelligence—sensuous, but certainly not intellectual. 

From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Smiles, Samuel