"Guzzler" Quotes from Famous Books
... witness this, who can brook it, save a whore-monger, a guzzler, and a gamester, that Mamurra should possess what long-haired Gaul and remotest Britain erstwhile had. Thou catamite Romulus, this thou'lt see and bear? Then thou'rt a whore-monger, a guzzler, and a gamester. And shall he now, superb and o'er replete, saunter o'er each one's bed, as though he ... — The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... even more an affair of birth than religion, since a man may change his faith, but hardly his manner of eating: the stomach used to roast meat and Yorkshire pudding rebels against Eastern cookery, and a Christian may sooner become a Buddhist than a beef-eater a guzzler of olla podrida. The Spaniards without weariness eat the same dinner day after day, year in, year out: it is always the same white, thin, oily soup; a dish of haricot beans and maize swimming in a revolting sauce; a nameless entree fried in oil—Andalusians ... — The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia • William Somerset Maugham
... about the forty millimetre bolts? Do you think you're equal to them now that you've got your gullet full, you confounded guzzler?" ... — L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... is poor sport to eat your chicken with a knife and fork, because the best part sticks to the bones. Then her friend stops her from drinking fruit syrup out of her plate, and her neighbour on the other side, a stout guzzler who has not been taught by his aunt to eat properly, encourages Gretchen to ... — Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick |