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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.]..................................... |
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