gormand
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There is a natural desire to retain the delicious fruit for full mastication; there is no such desire, except in the trained gormand, for the retention of animal substance.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
The little observer was willing to give up all her breakfast to the little winged gormand for the sake of the satisfaction she received from seeing how he managed to eat.
From Piccolissima by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
An unfortunate gormand seized it, and was soon placed with the other finny captives.
From The Cave by the Beech Fork A Story of Kentucky?1815 by Henry S. Spalding
Moiseney had two weaknesses; she was a gormand, and she admired handsome men.
From Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez
He was not a gormand, but he had continued to live well.
From The Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo
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