Consumed

Examples

• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The coal in the retorts is not entirely consumed, but is reduced to the condition of coke, and in this form is sold for fuel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This sets in motion a train of wheels carrying the hands over the dials which mark the quantity of gas consumed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He has consumed all ours that I can spare. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The value, therefore, of what has been consumed and produced during these six months, is equal, not to ten, but to twenty pounds. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy's bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Our visitor had consumed his milk and biscuits. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If the damper is kept open, coal is rapidly consumed, and the additional heat passes out through the chimney, and is lost to use. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th, were consumed in manoeuvring and awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They consumed theirs at the depots. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The boiler evaporated 114 gallons of water in the hour, and consumed, in the same time, 217 pounds of coke. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Finding that the melted metal sank through the mass of consumed fuel, they constructed a stone hearth on which to receive it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• On her first voyage to New York, across the Atlantic, in 1860, she carried from 15 to 24 pounds of steam and consumed 2,877 tons of coal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There was no need for haste, and some months were consumed in the necessary preparations for a move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command; such as cannot be consumed, destroy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mrs. Norris could not speak with any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Most of the sugar consumed in the United States is imported, much raw sugar being imported and refined here. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1914 7,500,000 tons of fertilizer worth $175,000,000 were consumed in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She was consumed in a fierce tension of opposition, like the negative pole of a magnet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Malt is consumed, not only in the brewery of beer and ale, but in the manufacture of low wines and spirits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But we must take care, too, that our little woman's life is not all consumed in care for others. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a small bedroom on the third floor of the station available for him, but going to bed meant delay and consumed time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tons of chemicals and hundreds of pine trees are used yearly in the making of matches, and many hundreds of millions of them are daily consumed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is unknown how much was consumed in our kitchen by odd comers and goers. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It was first commercially imported as a substitute for rubber, but its peculiar suitability for chewing gum has resulted in the entire product being consumed by that industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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