Usage of "gluttons" | TermGallery

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Musteline mammal of northern Eurasia.

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A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess.

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Uso de gluttons em inglês

Here and there would be found a few hard-hearted and unsympathetic gluttons. 
 Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge... 

The passions then are gambolling cubs; not the ravaging gluttons they grow to. 
 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 2 

The gluttons often look with the greatest contempt upon the slaves of liquor. 
 Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency) 

Fantastic, unpractical, they were gluttons for the romantic, the recondite, and the dainty. 
 The Half-Hearted 

And the festival lasted many days, though plenty made gluttons of them all. 
 Tropic Days 

But some are gluttons and others think only of fine clothes. 
 English Literature for Boys and Girls 

For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied gluttons. 
 The Research Magnificent 

One might as well not eat because some men are gluttons. 
 The Prime Minister 

All who succeed are gluttons for work, toiling whilst others play and sleep. 
 Within You is the Power 

We've saved the lives for a time of several hundred gluttons. 
 The Ivory Trail 

In the pursuit of lynxes and wolverines or gluttons, fire-arms had to be used. 
 The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude 

They were both of them gluttons for the fruits and signs of their success. 
 Seven Men [Excerpts] 

Two Doors Down Monday, BBC Two, 10pm Some people are just gluttons for punishment. 
 The Irish Times 

They are optical gluttons, feasting and fattening on the misfortunes of their fellow beings. 
 The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million 

They were hideous gluttons, gorging themselves when occasion offered with the rapacity of vultures. 
 The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada 

They are impatient gluttons, and often begin tearing their prey before it is dead. 
 The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ... 