1 Her appetite never dulled, for whenever she remembered the everlasting goobers and dried peas and sweet potatoes at Tara, she felt an urge to gorge herself anew of Creole dishes.
2 They smelled death from afar and were drawn unerringly to it, to gorge themselves.
3 Now secure, she wanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks and satins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery.
4 Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.
5 I am arranging a stratagem of war in his pathway on the wooded slope, to block a gorge on the highroad with armed troops.
6 Dark thick foliage hems it in on either hand, and into it a bare footpath leads by a narrow gorge and difficult entrance.
7 A torrent, whose bed was dry, led into a deep gorge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 8 "Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 9 Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 10 Little Juozapas gorged himself, and came home with a newspaper full, which he was feeding to Antanas when his mother came in.
11 When Magua reached the cluster of lolling savages, who, gorged with their disgusting meal, lay stretched on the earth in brutal indulgence, he commenced speaking with the dignity of an Indian chief.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 12 She looked at him on every side and saw that something was moving and struggling in his gorged belly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE WOLF AND THE SEVEN LITTLE KIDS 13 He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
14 It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.
15 She begged Antonia and me to go with her, and help get her cattle together; they were scattered and might be gorging themselves in somebody's cornfield.