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  • Dr. Flint was an epicure.  (source)
  • He's one of the fifteen distinguished gentlemen in the Madeira Club, where he and the others deliver learned papers over epicurean dinners and fine Madeira wines.†  (source)
  • The police and anti-narcotic agencies were focused on other, more market-leading substances, and to the unsuspecting, fungi, whether hallucinogenic or portobello, all seemed the same, and innocuous enough, a fact exploited by a middle-aged local man with a ponytail who ran a small side business that offered rare ingredients for chefs and epicures, and yet was followed and liked in cyberspace mostly by the young.†  (source)
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  • The amount and variety of foods would have found approval on the menu of a Roman epicure.†  (source)
  • He visited the Jewish synagogue in Athens and conversed with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers.†  (source)
  • I also noticed some wrasse known as the tapiro, three decimeters long, bony fish with transparent scales whose bluish gray color is mixed with red spots; they're enthusiastic eaters of marine vegetables, which gives them an exquisite flavor; hence these tapiro were much in demand by the epicures of ancient Rome, and their entrails were dressed with brains of peacock, tongue of flamingo, and testes of moray to make that divine platter that so enraptured the Roman emperor Vitellius.†  (source)
  • 17:18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him.†  (source)
  • As he sat and watched his amiable and clever companion going through his excellent repast with the delicate deliberation of hereditary epicurism, the folly of so charming a fellow traveling off to expose his agreeable young life for the sake of M. Stanislas and Mademoiselle Noemie struck him with intolerable force.†  (source)
  • Well, I can't splurge like Guy the Epicure.†  (source)
  • Captain Call, a Stoic, says nothing about this mishap but Augustus, an Epicurean, makes several comments, none of them welcomed by Captain Call.†  (source)
  • Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.†  (source)
  • The story goes that the Epicureans lived in a garden.†  (source)
  • She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism.†  (source)
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