All 14 Uses of
devour
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He clung to one idea—that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante.†
Chpt 15-16
- He clung to one idea—that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante.†
Chpt 15-16
- He had often heard that shipwrecked persons had died through having eagerly devoured too much food.†
Chpt 15-16
- Edmond replaced on the table the bread he was about to devour, and returned to his couch—he did not wish to die.†
Chpt 15-16
- In the morning the jailer brought him fresh provisions—he had already devoured those of the previous day; he ate these listening anxiously for the sound, walking round and round his cell, shaking the iron bars of the loophole, restoring vigor and agility to his limbs by exercise, and so preparing himself for his future destiny.†
Chpt 15-16
- He rapidly devoured his food, and after waiting an hour, lest the jailer should change his mind and return, he removed his bed, took the handle of the saucepan, inserted the point between the hewn stone and rough stones of the wall, and employed it as a lever.†
Chpt 15-16
- "Yet, had he come," thought Dantes, "he would have found the treasure, and Borgia, he who compared Italy to an artichoke, which he could devour leaf by leaf, knew too well the value of time to waste it in replacing this rock.†
Chpt 23-24
- I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.†
Chpt 51-52
- Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture.†
Chpt 61-62
- But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured.†
Chpt 77-78
- The Count of Monte Cristo turned dreadfully pale; his eye seemed to burn with a devouring fire.†
Chpt 91-92
- We see that Danglars was collected enough to jest; at the same time, as though to disprove the ogreish propensities, the man took some black bread, cheese, and onions from his wallet, which he began devouring voraciously.†
Chpt 115-116
- "Tell me," cried Danglars, in a tone whose bitterness Harpagon [*] alone has been capable of revealing—"tell me that you wish to despoil me of all; it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal."†
Chpt 115-116
- Have you still that devouring thirst which can only be appeased in the grave?†
Chpt 117 *
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry