True it is the supply was not large enough to admit of our gorging ourselves; but I dare venture to say that many there would have lived on much less had they been thrown upon their own resources in their own homes.

After this we may measure the almost fiendish force of a morbid imagination brooding over the incident, And he saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival: Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb, They were too busy to bark at him.

Old Sedley was disposed to spoil little Georgie, sadly gorging the boy with apples and peppermint to the detriment of his health, until Amelia declared that Georgie should never go out with his grandpapa again unless the latter solemnly promised on his honour not to give the child any cakes, lollipops, or stall produce whatever.

Then, besides all this, he called me such vile names as 'fat priest,' 'man-eating bishop,' 'money-gorging usurer,' and what not, as though I were no more than a strolling beggar or tinker.

"And a money-gorging usurer?" "Ay," said Little John in so sorrowful a voice that it might have drawn tears from the Dragon of Wentley.

Gorging and growling o'er carcase and limb, They were too busy to bark at him.

"I see the square," answered the commandant, "with five hundred kettle-lights, and three thousand Mussulmans gorging themselves, making up lost time.

And when I had made an end of so great a gorging, and had ceased to be drunken with water, I gat my gear upon me, and took the Diskos into mine hand, and so went forth once more towards the North.

The corpse was letting itself be consumed, the vulture was gorging itself with meat, and because it was not possible for me to give it life so that it might turn against its destroyer, and because the corruption developed slowly, I have stimulated greed, I have abetted it.

The only positive results they are accustomed to get from the fiesta are the marks of the aforesaid pinchings, the vexations, and at best an attack of indigestion from gorging themselves with candy and cake in the houses of kind relatives.

The bellies of all the four lions were much distended by some game they had been gorging, no doubt a buffalo, as a large herd started out of the jungle immediately under the spot where the noble beasts were first disturbed.

The "Ménagier" tells as that, as is the present practice, chickens were fattened by depriving them of light and liberty, and gorging them with succulent food.

It is but his own "prosperity"and a "prosperity," such as the wolf may boast, when gorging on the flock.

It is but his own "prosperity"and a "prosperity," such as the wolf may boast, when gorging on the flock.

It is good, mournful though it be, that a few, even by gorging themselves with poison, should indicate the rise of a spiritual hungerif we do but take their fate as a warning to provide wholesome food before the new craving has extended itself to the many.

When they came from their gorging to the garden, they picked flowers, smelled the many kinds of blossoms, and then the sailors lighted their cigars.

There, "gorging himself with books", Cicero finds Marcus Catoa Stoic of the Stoicswho expounds in a high tone the principles of his sect.

They escaped while the new tenants were gorging their astonished, bewildered eyes with the splendors of the apartment.

Over-gorging and dissoluteness killed her, said the Lorilleux.

The lives of the negroes were alternations of gorging and starving, incredible repletion and more incredible fasting; devouring vast masses of hippopotamus-flesh to-day, and starving for a week thereafter; pounds of prime meat to-day, gnawing hunger and the weakness of semi-starvation for the next month.

Wild animals sleep after gorging, but it sent this monster, refreshed, to his work.

With careful handling he should get a week out of her gift, she explained complacently, besides two makes of broth; and she and the boy looked as if they would like dearly to sit opposite Tommy during those seven days and watch him gorging.

In Sennar, a province of the Egyptian Sudan, the Hammeg and Fungi enjoy the reputation of being powerful magicians who can turn themselves into hyaenas and in that guise scour the country at night, howling and gorging themselves.

When she was not keeping company with her brandy bottle, she was gorging herself with delicacies of all kinds, from patties and fricassées to peaches and nectarines, washed down with copious draughts of iced beer.

There were special favorites that would light upon her palm, overrunning its pink hollow and gorging at the honey-drop.