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• He was a glutton and a wine bibber, and was usually drunk, and when he was not in his banquet hall he was in his harim.
• He was nicknamed the Enciclopedic, the animated Library, a literary glutton (Divoratore di Libri), and the most rational of bibliomaniacs, inasmuch as he read everything he bought.
• Fletcher promised that "Fletcherizing", as it became known, would turn "a pitiable glutton into an intelligent epicurean".
• She played a range of characters from jolly and assertive women with sturdy moral standards (Camping, Girls) to sexy and lusty women – either desired (Constable, Cowboy) or coarse and unattractive (Henry, Up the Khyber), to a chatty glutton (Matron), battleaxe wives (Screaming, Abroad) and an unattractive spinster (Doctor).
• Cleon, a rich citizen, is a selfish glutton; the mature women are sexually rapacious, one even attempting to seduce her own stepson; and the city's slaves are badly abused.
• His contemporaries called him helluo librorum (glutton of books) for the rapidity with which he examined the principal libraries.
• The scholarly printer Paulus Manutius called him antiquitatis helluo ("a glutton for antiquity"), and Julius Caesar Scaliger styled him pater omnis historiae ("father of all history").
• Confirming sentiments associated with negatively evaluated identities – like bully, glutton, loafer, or scatterbrain – generates deviant behavior.
• The Old French word "lecheor" survives in the modern English "lecher", though its original meaning encompassed "glutton", "debauched person", "the lover of a married woman", "trickster" and perhaps "minstrel".
• The former poem characterizes Death as an "all-consuming glutton who swallows the good" and argues that Bulstrode was one of the good.
• his dirty dealing and underhand passing of coin, all the shabby pretense in the double-faced glutton and roisterer.
• While a Sunday Mirror reporter thought Jonny was "braver than he looks" when he messed with Mo, and when he then spent the weekend with Jac, the reporter called him "a glutton for punishment".
• A critic from Stereo Review was pleased with Streisand's Funny Lady, stating that it "will surely bring out the ravening glutton I suspect is lurking in all who are her fondest fans".

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