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Compared with these performances some of the current prodigies of gormandism which the papers so often report are surely as trifling in amount as they are tame and uninventive in the character of their details.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

But when were there ever scruples over food on Peace River, that theatre of mighty feats of gormandism?

From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Mair, Charles

It is the natural recoil from insincerity, vanity and gormandism which, growing glaringly offensive, causes these certain men and women to "come out" and stand firm for plain living and high thinking.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert

Nor may I speculate on how well or wisely we ate and drank when gormandism was again in consonance with law-abiding citizenship.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.