gorged
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When the colleagues finally meet, they lament Wilde’s verdict; John thunders: “The country has choked itself on ill-feeling. Gorged on misery and heavy morals. Laughed themselves sick.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022
Gorged on deviled eggs in the Student Union, supine banqueters cheered a female snake dancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Gorged with the plunder of the world, these began, after a time, to settle on their lees and to mingle with the ordinary population.
From Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by Mitchell, J. Murray (John Murray)
Gorged with loot, they spent it as lavishly as Morgan's buccaneers after the sack of Panama.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard
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