Both Uses of
devour
in
The House of Mirth
- At any rate, though she remained haughtily at Bellomont, Lily suspected in her a devouring eagerness to hear of what she had missed, and to learn exactly in what measure Mrs. Wellington Bry had surpassed all previous competitors for social recognition.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- But the sallow preoccupied women, with their bags and note-books and rolls of music, were all engrossed in their own affairs, and even those who sat by themselves were busy running over proof-sheets or devouring magazines between their hurried gulps of tea.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry