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(noun) a gluttonous, greedy, or rapacious person OR a type of bird

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cormorant

Coleridge, supremely of this breed, spoke of "literary-cormorants,"

—p.152 Rare Bird (148) by George Steiner

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9 years, 4 months ago

sheer verbal power, the cormorant-like ingestion of experience

a New Republic critique of Updike

—p.133 Rabbit at Rest (133) missing author

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9 years, 1 month ago