Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Eating
As a lamp is choked with a multitude of oil, or a little fire with overmuch wood quite extinguished; so is the natural heat with immoderate eating strangled in the body.
—Robert Burton
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
As a lamp is choked with a multitude of oil, or a little fire with overmuch wood quite extinguished; so is the natural heat with immoderate eating strangled in the body.
—Robert Burton