He ate duck and dog and other delicacies.

The Oxford English Dictionary notes that some etymologists have suggested a connection with Old High German nasc, meaning 'to eat dainty food or delicacies' (the origin of the word nosh), but it dismisses this connection as "unlikely".

A tubby figure who loved to eat fatty Hungarian delicacies, Szilard was often thought of as maddeningly eccentric.

On the other hand, the gorillas will be able to eat delicacies like papaws, mulberries, orange day lilies and peppermint, one of those exuberant growers that can never be overgrazed.

I was eagerly anticipating my first visit to the restaurant, where I would be given the best table and would eat spontaneously created delicacies the chef had designed to impress me.

There, pretty boys hang out with macho truck drivers (some of whom wear Victoria's Secret items under their denims) and eat delicacies prepared by the diner's gourmet chef.

She carried the key with her to the great hall in the third tower, where the councilors ate savory delicacies with their fingers, drank wine, and continued their endless debates while families and guests slowly gathered from woods and gardens, city shops and neighbors' houses, for supper.

In the decidedly grittier world most Nigerians inhabit, the president would eat delicacies from the street, things like goat head and pounded yam, and he would quench his thirst with water that did not come from a bottle, or even a tap.

All of the women and eunuchs of the palace dressed in the best silk and ate delicacies.

Here passengers ate delicacies prepared by a master chef under an arched ceiling of embossed leather and oil paintings.