"Gourmand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he did not know how to express the new sensation that took possession of his jaded brain. He was like a gourmand dyspeptic who has long hesitated before trying the diet of a workingman and when someone has whisked him off to a sanitarium and fed him bran and milk until he has forgotten nerves, headaches, and logginess he vows eternal ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... Browning's charming lines by heart on the thrush in an "English garden in Spring," will ever quietly sit down to such a repast, and, whenever I could, I lectured the people on this slaughter of singing birds for the dinner table, I fear to no purpose. Leaving the gourmand—whose proclivities, by the way, are much encouraged throughout every stage of his journey in the Franche-Comte—let me advise the curious to study the beautiful interior of the church of St. Anatole dominating the town, also the equestrian ...
— Holidays in Eastern France • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... Punch something of a gourmand, and each meal has to contain, besides its foundation of wheaten chaff and its piece de resistance of cracked maize, a flavouring of oats—say, three double handfuls—and a thorough sprinkling, well rubbed in, of bran. If the proportions are wrong, or any of the constituents of the ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... you spoil that boy so. I won't have him a liar and a gourmand; he's bad enough without that. Olly, stop ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... "What a gourmand he is!" whispered Lewis to the Captain, in reference to the man of science, "and such a genial outflow of wit to correspond with ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... could improve), if you thought it worth your valuable time. Had I read No. VI., even a rudiment of modesty would, or ought to, have stopped me saying so much. Though I have been well abused, yet I have had so much praise, that I have become a gourmand, both as to capacity and taste; and I really did not think that mortal man could have tickled my palate in the exquisite manner with which you have done the job. So I am an old ass, and nothing more need be said about this. I agree entirely with all your reservations about accepting the doctrine, ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin |
