Sample Sentences for
epicure
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    He was a physician, a scholar, an epicure, a connoisseur of fine wines, and a gentleman who took his social obligations seriously.†  (source)
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    I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade — the sweet charm of freshness would leave it.†  (source)
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    The amount and variety of foods would have found approval on the menu of a Roman epicure.†  (source)
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    Well, I can't splurge like Guy the Epicure.†  (source)
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    Captain Call, a Stoic, says nothing about this mishap but Augustus, an Epicurean, makes several comments, none of them welcomed by Captain Call.†  (source)
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    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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    After Epicurus, many Epicureans developed an overemphasis on self-indulgence.†  (source)
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    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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    Peppino was decidedly an epicure.†  (source)
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    But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his own epicurean lips.†  (source)
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    Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.†  (source)
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    The story goes that the Epicureans lived in a garden.†  (source)
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    She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more;—not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward's generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.†  (source)
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