"Overeat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... appliances of civilised life. The soldier on service, even in a desert, has a wonderful way of acquiring possessions, and every time we moved we were faced with the total loss of our dearest treasures. A heavy parcel mail usually arrived the day before, and we had to overeat ourselves or dump. Each company mess cherished a few bits of straw matting and some poles, found or stolen, with which they rigged up a precarious shelter wherein to eat their meals, sitting in state on sand-bag seats at a table of sand covered with a waterproof sheet. Must these be abandoned ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce |
