A celebrated gourmand remarked that a dinner without cheese is like a woman with one eye.

Then, with half an hour to wait, he lumbered into the buvette and gorged, while Lanyardhaving secured his own transportation for Lyons by the some routeskulked in the offing and kept a close eye on the gourmand.

Of quadrupeds, the greatest favorite was the wild boar,the chief dish of a grand coena,coming whole upon the table; and the practised gourmand pretended to distinguish by the taste from what part of Italy it came.

I won't have him a liar and a gourmand; he's bad enough without that.

* Louis XIV. was such a gourmand, that he would eat at a sitting four platesful of different soups, a whole pheasant, a partridge, a plateful of salad, mutton hashed with garlick, two good sized slices of ham, a dish of pastry, and, afterwards, fruit and sweetmeats.

" Dick could only laugh, for any allusion to the feast instantly brought back that owl-like gourmand to whom he was so deeply indebted.

"After which, they had wine, cakes, and roast meat, (provided by the gentleman in black,) which they did eat and drink; and they danced and were very merry," &c. Many of these unhallowed meetings took place afterwards, and their entertainer, the gentleman in blackman or devilseems to have been a regular gourmand, "and never failed to bring with him abundance of excellent cheer."

A facetious gourmand used to say, that he had eaten so much beef for the last six months, that he was ashamed to look a bullock in the face.

" "England" has been slightingly defined by a French gourmand as a country of fifty religions and only one sauce!

Another, who is a gourmand, is only interested in subjects connected with the gratification of his palate.

Alan Massey's mood filled Jim Roberts with exquisite enjoyment, enjoyment such as a gourmand feels on setting his teeth in some rare morsel of food.

" "But it is no better than the tender steak of young bear," said Tayoga, with all the inflections of a gourmand.

It will not surprise us to learn that the eminent gourmand Apicius offered a prize to the inventor of a new sauce made of mullets' livers.

We saw one of them devouring pumpkin as a gourmand would turtle, and this voracity is by weather-wise people considered as a sure indication of rain.

In this he was rivalled by the father of French opera, Lully, who was a gourmand, in spite of the fact that he spent his early life as a kitchen boy.

a attiré les regards des spectateurs?De quoi cette personne était-elle couverte?De quel meuble s'est-elle approchée?Était-elle douée d'un grand appétit?Comment mangeait-elle?Qu'est-ce que les spectateurs se demandaient enfin?Gargantua aurait-il approché du gourmand du

LE MELON DE MAYENNE Le duc de Mayenne, gros, gras et gourmand, était plutôt bon gastronome qu'habile général.

GOURMAND, E, qui mange avec excès les bons morceaux.

Au capucin gourmand, roman.

Paris gourmand.

Au capucin gourmand, roman.

Paris gourmand.

3. Ne prenez pas vostre repas en gourmand.

Indeed, there is said to be an odd fellow, a strictly American gourmand, in New York, who sits, from noon to dusk on Christmas-Day, up in a tall steeple, merely to catch the aroma of roast-turkey floating over the city,and much good, it is said, it does him.

She was slight of build, perhaps not yet fully developed, with the early ripeness of the Eastern beauty expressed in face and figurea black cherry, at sight of which the mouth of such a gourmand as the Ritter von Wallishausen would naturally water!