 Re: Appetite comes in eating
Desire or facility increases as an activity proceeds. Cf. [1534 Rabelais Gargantua i. v.] l'appétit vient en mangeant, appetite comes with eating; [1600-1 Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 143] Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on.
Appetite comes with eating.
[1653 Urquhart & Motteux tr. Rabelais' Gargantua i. v.]
But as we say in France, the Appetite comes in Eating; so in Writing You stil found more to write.
[a 1721 M. Prior Dialogues of Dead (1907) 227]
Appetite comes with eating. Having absorbed Port Arthur and begun on Manchuria, Russia saw no reason why she should not have Korea also.
[1906 W. Maxwell From Yalu to Port Arthur i.]
The appetite came with eating. The more he had of her, the more he wanted.
[1943 S. Cloete Congo Song xxiv.].....................................
| 
