All 4 Uses of
devour
in
Wuthering Heights
- Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out — on their peril to keep me one minute longer — with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.†
Chpt 2
- I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.'†
Chpt 10 *
- I fancy it knew me: it pushed its nose against mine by way of salute, and then hastened to devour the porridge; while I groped from step to step, collecting the shattered earthenware, and drying the spatters of milk from the banister with my pocket-handkerchief.†
Chpt 13
- They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached — and soon — because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfilment.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry