When I thought that the little Feaster must be about full, I opened the box, but it was in no hurry to fly.
"The Story of My Boyhood and Youth"
John Muir
Mr. Inchling was a florid City-Feaster, descendant of a line of City merchants, having features for a wife to identify; as drovers, they tell us, can single one from another of their round-bellied beasts.
"One of Our Conquerors, v2"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
Each and every Feaster watches each and every other Feaster with the quick, wary eye of a jungle being consuming its food before it is snatched from him or her; and gossip reigns over all.
"Blue-grass and Broadway"
Maria Thompson Daviess