Devouring
[dɪ'vaʊərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devour
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- 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.
Typist: Vilma