All 4 Uses of
devour
in
Gone with the Wind
- Like most innocent and well-bred young women, she had a devouring curiosity about prostitutes.†
Chpt 2.13 *
- They were devoured by curiosity as to what Grandma had to say to Scarlett but unless she chose to tell them, they would never know.†
Chpt 3.26
- These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army.†
Chpt 3.28
- "Good God!" cried the doctor, thunderstruck, for it had never occurred to him that the curiosity of a chaste woman concerning her unchaste sisters was so devouring.†
Chpt 4.46
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry