Consuming

Examples

• On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pin-setter relieves the boy of the major and most time-consuming part of this work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With Johnston and him combined, a long, tedious, and expensive campaign, consuming most of the summer, might become necessary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But he always said to himself, how happy he had been, how he had loved her with a pure and consuming love ever since he had known her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was inspired by a consuming passion for a new order of human life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it may be seriously questioned whether in the aggregate Edison's visitors are less numerous or less time-consuming than his epistolary besiegers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There, if I remember, we were about six weeks, consuming our sea stores and obliged to procure more. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It affords good, active exercise, hilarity, and consuming excitement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To show what they mean, however, it might be noted that New York City alone has 3000 stock tickers, consuming 50,000 miles of record tape every year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Even iron could not remain without consuming in the damps of that infernal dungeon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We still consider his revenue as consisting in this power of purchasing or consuming, and not in the pieces which convey it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is not uncommon to find an outdoor laborer consuming one pound of beans per day, and taking meat only on high days and holidays. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It has been too intense and consuming. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• As a mere child the busy scenes of the canal and the grain warehouses were of consuming interest, but the work in the ship-building yards had an irresistible fascination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I reached this one, said my friend, by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I could not disguise to myself, nor could she conceal, her life-consuming sorrow. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Among his inventions may be mentioned a machine for making fuel from wheat straw, and a smoke-consuming device. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was consuming beyond its powers of production, but as yet only the inarticulate classes were feeling the pinch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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