All 7 Uses of
devour
in
Arrowsmith
- I was just wondering," Martin complained, and he drifted to the College Inn where, in an injured and melancholy manner, he devoured an enormous banana-split and a bar of almond chocolate, as he meditated: "I want to take bacteriology.†
Chpt 2
- At supper—the thirty piratical Digams sitting at a long and spotty table, devouring clam chowder and beans and codfish balls and banana layer-cake—the Freshmen earnestly repeated after a senior: On old Olympus' topmost top A fat-eared German viewed a hop.†
Chpt 3
- The crew of the six o'clock morning interurban became used to a pale, quick-moving young man who sat hunched in a back seat, devouring large red books, absently gnawing a rather dreadful doughnut.†
Chpt 10
- He was aware of a devouring whistle, saw sliding light on the rails, and brought up sharp.†
Chpt 15 *
- When they had been herded back to the drawing-room, after masculine but achingly elaborate passings of the port, Capitola swooped on him with white devouring wings: "Dear Dr. Arrowsmith, I really didn't get a chance at dinner to ask you just exactly WHAT you are doing…… Oh!†
Chpt 29
- The Directorship devoured enough time and peace to prevent Gottlieb from going on with the ever more recondite problems of his inquiry into the nature of specificity, and his inquiry prevented him from giving enough attention to the Institute to keep it from falling to pieces.†
Chpt 30
- They devoured paw-paws and breadfruit and avocados, bought from coffee-colored natives who came alongside in nervous small boats; they felt the languor of the isles, and panted before they approached Barbados.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry