All 6 Uses of
devour
in
Moby Dick
- Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!†
Chpt 16-18
- But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.†
Chpt 40-42
- And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose?†
Chpt 64-66
- The lion is the horse-shoe sign—the roaring and devouring lion.†
Chpt 97-99 *
- He added, that he shuddered at the thought of being buried in his hammock, according to the usual sea-custom, tossed like something vile to the death-devouring sharks.†
Chpt 109-111
- "Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!" deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.†
Chpt 112-114
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry