Devour

Examples

• I will bear the brunt of his wrath; he will not devour me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This was continued, not through so long a period as the effort to take my friend Clarke and devour him, but for a period of about three weeks. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To my ear it appeared that there must have been enough of them to devour our party, horses and all, at a single meal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour--like Minotaurs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Darwin write s, It is certainly true, that when pressed in winter by hunger, they kill and devour their ol d women before they kill their dogs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Had you seen him devour the raw meat of the lion, Esmeralda, laughed Clayton, you would have thought him a very material angel. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am being devoured by a lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as though by wolves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I devoured my bread and drank my coffee with relish; but I should have been glad of as much more--I was still hungry. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• See, brother, he said, the deceptions of the devouring Enemy! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They have actually been devouring their food here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Now I thought of the collation, which doubtless they were just then devouring in the garden far below. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Left alone, under those circumstances, a devouring curiosity pushed me on to make some discoveries for myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When the fever of my young life is spent; when placid age shall tame the vulture that devours me, friendship may come, love and hope being dead. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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