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Meanings of great eater in English

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Usage of great eater in English
1
Though he was a great eater Fatty was also a fast one.
The Tale of Grumpy Weasel / Sleepy-Time Tales
2
A great eater of other birds' eggs, especially thrushes and pigeons, it seems.
The Irish Times
3
He remained single, and became a great eater of oysters.
In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories
4
His food will last him a week if he's careful; he's no great eater.
The Desert and the Sown
5
The count was not only a great eater, but was vain of his enormous appetite.
The Lerouge Case
6
He was a great eater, like the King, and like the Queens his mother and grandmother.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
7
I am a great eater myself and I hope you will not let me eat alone.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
8
He was prodigiously learned and a great eater.
The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
9
He was usually a great eater, and I wished to give myself some diversion in half-starving him.
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
10
He is a great eater and drinker, and always conceals a rejoicing stomach under a grieving exterior.
The Uncommercial Traveller
11
He was a great eater, but what he didn't eat one day he could eat the next.
Castle Richmond
12
He was not a great eater.
Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
13
Though not a great eater, his quiet habits and his being a great sleeper prevent his being lean.
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
14
And Posidippus, in his 'Epigrams,' says that Phuromachus was a great eater, on whom he wrote this epigram:-
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
15
He is reported to have been a great eater, and usually took his breakfast in the winter-time before day.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba
16
This ruler was fond of the chase and a great eater, but, on the whole, he did no harm.
China
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