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  • When they are together, he is ravenous; it has been a long time since he's made love.†   (source)
  • Ralph continued to watch the ship, ravenously.†   (source)
  • The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.†   (source)
  • All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her.†   (source)
  • If he had his way we'd be learning our religion in Latin, the language of the saints who communed intimately with God and His Holy Mother, the language of the early Christians, who huddled in the catacombs and went forth to die on rack and sword, who expired in the foaming jaws of the ravenous lion.†   (source)
  • Garrow bowed over it: the hungry look on his face became ravenous, and his fingers moved with a strange twitch.†   (source)
  • A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen.†   (source)
  • We heard her wet panting sounds as she ravenously tore into the meat with her fangs, and she was full of threat and power.†   (source)
  • I realized now that I was ravenous.†   (source)
  • Just nature, the way it's been for thousands of years up here in this land of truly terrible beauty and ravenous hatred.†   (source)
  • The three of them, husband, wife, and visitor, ravenously consume the meat loaf, potatoes, and vegetables, and in the course of that experience our narrator finds his antipathy toward the blind man beginning to break down.†   (source)
  • In the tank, the shark was circling again, looking every bit as lean and ravenous as before.†   (source)
  • And I am suddenly hungry, ravenous.†   (source)
  • They ate like men, ravenous and intent.†   (source)
  • At last, when the sun was low in the sky, a prisoner crew arrived with a great vat of some thick steamy substance that we gobbled ravenously.†   (source)
  • It gave me hope to have a skilled dimachaerus and a ravenous peach baby at my side.†   (source)
  • She put down a plate of hash and a thick slice of sourdough bread, and even though I couldn't imagine being hungry, my mouth watered and my stomach rumbled and I was suddenly ravenous.†   (source)
  • A massive double-headed phoenix on his chest glared at her through nipple eyes like some kind of ravenous vulture, patiently waiting for her death.†   (source)
  • Church fell on it ravenously.†   (source)
  • She would nurse him again; he would eat ravenously, then empty his stomach yet again.†   (source)
  • Now I'm ravenous.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me I'd been eating ravenously ever since I came to.†   (source)
  • But any serious snake enthusiast would admit, whatever his schooling, that the Arabian Garstini, though shorter than the python and lighter than the anaconda, was quicker and more ravenous than either, and this specimen of Prince Humperdinck's was not only remarkable for its speed and agility, it was also kept in a permanent state just verging on the outskirts of starvation, so the first coil came like lightning as it dropped from above them and pinioned their hands so the fist and…†   (source)
  • I was ravenously hungry.†   (source)
  • I could not remember the last time I had tasted bacon and eggs, and I was ravenous.†   (source)
  • After one bite she realized she was absolutely ravenous.†   (source)
  • But then the creature's eyes are on me, bright and ravenous.†   (source)
  • He was ravenous, and he remembered that she hadn't cooked him dinner in months.†   (source)
  • The boys had endured unimaginable misery in a years-long hegira through the Sudanese wilderness—crossing rivers full of crocodiles and scrubland roamed by ravenous lions—before making it to a series of refugee camps across the border in Kenya and Ethiopia.†   (source)
  • She reached into the paper sack and ripped open a loaf of bread, taking out a slice, for she had not eaten all day and was ravenous.†   (source)
  • I remember sitting by the fire, ravenously consuming a cold supper ….†   (source)
  • He had been ravenous since coming off the plains--so whatever the blow was, it was serious.†   (source)
  • Their food came and, ravenous, they plunged into their meals.†   (source)
  • When he woke, he was ravenously hungry and ventured out of the room to look for his hamburger.†   (source)
  • I was surprised I could eat, but I was ravenous.†   (source)
  • "Not quite," Aven said, looking at the ravenous stares the Wendigo were giving their new shipmates.†   (source)
  • Yossarian had responded ravenously to the pungent aroma of spicy lamb while he was still in the cab of the ambulance bouncing down along the knotted road that lay like a broken suspender between the hospital and the squadron.†   (source)
  • Speaking of Kitchen, I am absolutely ravenous.†   (source)
  • It ought to be quite interesting having them share such a small space, what with Otis's now surely ravenous appetite.†   (source)
  • Hugh, from a young age, had loved honey more than any other food, and at five he'd started eating honeycomb along with it—so ravenously that the first time he accidentally swallowed a bee, he didn't notice until he felt it buzzing around in his stomach.†   (source)
  • Years later, when I first kiss a woman's breast, I become ravenous.†   (source)
  • Talons swiped like sickles; fangs gnashed ravenously in anticipation of meat.†   (source)
  • The orderly put the food tray on his bed, and he began eating ravenously.†   (source)
  • He was ravenously hungry, though he hadn't thought about it till that moment.†   (source)
  • I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she is ravenous.†   (source)
  • Once safe ashore, though, Sam had found himself ravenously hungry.†   (source)
  • Undead evoked ghouls and wights and revenants—creatures with rotting flesh and spectral eyes and a ravenous hatred of the living.†   (source)
  • There was how Hollis was a ravenous child, sucking my mother's milk supply dry.†   (source)
  • A moment went by, and then every cell in Billy's body shook him with ravenous gratitude and applause.†   (source)
  • Ravenous for more, she raced over him, acutely aware of every masculine tremble beneath her, every drawn breath, every murmur of her name.†   (source)
  • But it grew swiftly, like something ravenous and all-seeing and demonic.†   (source)
  • My mind quickly flashed back to the quig that Uncle Press nailed with the spear and of how the other ravenous quigs devoured one of their own, ripping its flesh from the bone while it was still alive.†   (source)
  • I'm ravenous.†   (source)
  • Cool and dry, ravenously hungry, lost, perplexed, and safe, they leaned back against their packs and blankets as they listened to the engines and the sea and watched the shore go by.†   (source)
  • Decca, as usual, is eating like a small, ravenous horse, and for once I'm doing my share of shoveling it in.†   (source)
  • I'm still feeling a little weak, but the old ME is back, ravenous and raring to go!†   (source)
  • Natalie ate ravenously of the bread and rice, but her training as a physician informed her decision to avoid the meat.†   (source)
  • When dinner was ready and the scent of the turkey was wafting its way through the house and causing us all to turn ravenous, my cousin Thomas finally arrived.†   (source)
  • Ravenous!†   (source)
  • When they reached the vicarage, Marta had started a fire, and set a pot of soup on the back of the stove and a loaf of homemade bread on the; table, and they ate ravenously.†   (source)
  • Frank, I remember, sold most of his crop to Planters in Suffolk, where it went to help satiate America's ravenous need for "Skippy" peanut butter.†   (source)
  • We had lived on fruit and water for two days and I was ravenously hungry, but I forgot this as I regarded the wide, sloping tiger beach with its sudden twists and rises of coral, orange, pink, and red, and its abrupt caches of shells, driftwood, and small polished stones; and the sea beyond: rising and falling, splashing softly, all gold and blue and royal purple, and casting forth its lifesong breezes like benedictions beneath dawn's violet skies.†   (source)
  • Ravenous.†   (source)
  • She was ravenous for a son-in-law.†   (source)
  • He leaned against the cabin wall, uncorked the bottle, wrapped his mouth over its mouth as ravenously as a famished baby takes the nipple, and tilted straight up.†   (source)
  • He was still ravenously hungry, and feeling very well.†   (source)
  • They are ravenous.†   (source)
  • Tyler, on the other hand, despised Adams; and Adams was disgusted with "the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster."†   (source)
  • The sight, the memory now, of the aloof and ravenous face opposite his, dark in the pearly window light, and the sorrowful mouth devouring the very best food until all had disappeared except for a pile of bones and a frill of paper-this filled him with a glow that began to increase while they smilingly nodded and rose.†   (source)
  • And it's ravenous.†   (source)
  • In the glare of the floodlights, it resembled a great furnace, moaning and ravenous.†   (source)
  • Ravenous, they ate and drank, and for a while there was sound of chewing.†   (source)
  • Ravenous hunger gripped him, so he ate the stew.†   (source)
  • First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes.†   (source)
  • With every gulp he drew, I felt more ravenous.†   (source)
  • Now we had a ravenous carnivore to worry about on top of everything else.†   (source)
  • But I am so ravenous that at the sight of the biscuit my mouth fills with water.†   (source)
  • He suppressed a belch before ravenously tearing into a hunk of bread.†   (source)
  • She ate with the ravenous intensity of a gorging wolf, displaying a complete lack of decorum.†   (source)
  • He would have made much more fuss about this if he had not by now been so ravenously hungry.†   (source)
  • He ate quickly, ravenously, drinking four cups of water with the meal.†   (source)
  • He was not only ravenous; his feet hurt.†   (source)
  • He went into the kitchen, suddenly ravenous, and dumped some ice cream from the freezer into a dish.†   (source)
  • He is sucked out into the ravenous void.†   (source)
  • Like a ravenous dog intent on a meal, he greedily chewed the flesh of a fruit.†   (source)
  • A flock of birds sped past, fleeing the ravenous demon.†   (source)
  • He woke Jake and watched him as he ate, bleary but ravenous.†   (source)
  • In the firelight, they looked pale and embryonic—a pack of skeletal, ravenous ghouls.†   (source)
  • He'd suck your mom dry and still be ravenous….†   (source)
  • My own reaction —that ravenous lust for violence— is proof.†   (source)
  • We fall asleep, waking in the middle of the night, ravenous.†   (source)
  • He thirsted for life and reached out ravenously to grasp and hold Nurse Duckett's flesh.†   (source)
  • Max devoured everything set before him with a ravenous hunger.†   (source)
  • Without speaking they ravenously consumed flesh, seeds, and juice.†   (source)
  • So ravenous was her appetite, so potent her feast, that she soon became very great herself.†   (source)
  • A spot check revealed that I was covered with the ravenous fellows.†   (source)
  • And it was the same with Dora herself, and who knew but that she might have been the next to fall victim to his ravenous frenzies?†   (source)
  • But Charlie Bucket never got what he wanted because the family couldn't afford it, and as the cold weather went on and on, he became ravenously and desperately hungry.†   (source)
  • …beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry…†   (source)
  • He squatted down in the tall grass, remembered the meat that Sam had given him, and began to tear at it ravenously.†   (source)
  • Kneeling at the altar …. vowing to "forever conceal the enigmas existing within Freemasonry" …. consenting to the penalty of "having one's chest cavity ripped open and pulsing heart cast upon the surface of the earth as offal for the ravenous beasts" ….†   (source)
  • The prisoners' diet was so poor that the men wandered the compound, ravenous, pulling up weeds and eating them.†   (source)
  • On his new low-hulk diet of petite meals, he was perpetually ravenous and was begging and thieving food more shamelessly than ever.†   (source)
  • Afterward, when the shark was alone in the tank, and was circling, still ravenous, never stopping, Mae wondered how long she should remain in place, allowing the watchers to watch this.†   (source)
  • Nothing stood still, no man or beast, not even the grass that writhed beneath the shadow, dark and ravenous.†   (source)
  • Louie lay in the barracks, ravenous.†   (source)
  • You poor creatures must be ravenous.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.†   (source)
  • I'm busy with my ravenous Taniel, who nurses night and day, riding in his sling on one side or the other so he won't have to pause while I boil his diapers.†   (source)
  • Again the tendril touched his mind, but this time, instead of curiosity, he sensed an overpowering, ravenous hunger.†   (source)
  • Sakaba was ravenous for promotion.†   (source)
  • The people are like ravenous dogs!†   (source)
  • Exactly as might be expected, he drapes an arm (a ravenous arm, but no one but his closest family members knows that) around Mom's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.†   (source)
  • When Max finally polished off a heaping mound of pasta shells swimming in Bellagrog's succulent red sauce, the ravenous hunger faded.†   (source)
  • She retrieved a quilt from the bedroom to cover them up, and sometime in the early morning hours, both of them realized they were ravenous.†   (source)
  • Hunger made it seem longer to Eragon, but it was not many more minutes before the stew was done, and he and Garzhvog ate, ravenous as wolves.†   (source)
  • Their sparring had left him ravenous.†   (source)
  • Back in the day, Mia would get too nervous to eat before shows, so afterward she was usually ravenous.†   (source)
  • Given their ravenous siblings and voracious parent, there seemed few safe harbors for the three-toed creatures clinging to Mum.†   (source)
  • Ravenous.†   (source)
  • Out behind the hut, he would cover only his face and neck and let the ravenous insects feed freely on his belly and chest and back.†   (source)
  • She wore a tattered dress of black silk, and her face was twisted and ravenous, like a demonic grandmother in the mood to kill.†   (source)
  • But for all its impressive discipline, the Twelfth Legion looked pitifully small, a splotch of demigod valor in a sea of ravenous monsters.†   (source)
  • They were ravenous, almost violent.†   (source)
  • Once there, Eragon could not tell from whose mouth emanated the ravenous jet of flame that consumed a dozen soldiers, cooking them in their mail, nor whose arm it was that brought Zar'roc down in an arc, cleaving a soldier's helm in half.†   (source)
  • Now she was suddenly ravenous.†   (source)
  • For what importance was a dragon and Rider compared with the merciless demands of the ravenous many-mouthed creature whose hunger they were striving to sate?†   (source)
  • At least not like my comrades in arms, who in their every spare moment seemed ravenous for any part of a woman, in any form, whether in photographs or songs or recounted stories, and of course, whenever possible, in the flesh.†   (source)
  • Alyah was ravenous and happy.†   (source)
  • From deep below, rising toward Saphira's underside faster than Eragon would have believed possible, he felt something that was cold and huge …. and filled with a ravenous, insatiable hunger.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was ravenously hungry.†   (source)
  • There were dogs, too, rotting, ravenous war hounds that bounded alongside the horses, braying into the night.†   (source)
  • As the sickness had tightened down on him, sinking into his nervous system like a ravenous grassfire, all dove-gray smoke and low rose-colored flame, as it continued to go about its work of destroying his established patterns of thought and behaviour, it had somehow deepened his cunning.†   (source)
  • Battling the Ra'zac, casting numerous spells, and bearing Sloan upon his shoulders for most of the day had left Eragon so ravenous, he imagined that if he could travel back in time, he could eat the entire feast the dwarves had cooked in his honor during his visit to Tarnag.†   (source)
  • The Beor Mountains would have been perfect, but it seemed doubtful that the dwarves would welcome hundreds of ravenous dragons hatching within the bounds of their realm.†   (source)
  • McWatt was too busy responding at the controls to Yossarian's strident instructions as Yossarian slipped the plane in on the bomb run and then whipped them all away violently around the ravenous pillars of exploding shells with curt, shrill, obscene commands to McWatt that were much like the anguished, entreating nightmare yelpings of Hungry Joe in the dark.†   (source)
  • Like a ravenous snake, the shaft swallowed up the hilt, clamping tight at the cross-guard so that the short sword was transformed into a long-bladed spear.†   (source)
  • An army, Eragon had learned, was a ravenous, insatiable beast that would soon die and separate into its constituent elements unless massive amounts of food were shoveled into its many thousands of stomachs upon a regular basis.†   (source)
  • Forced to defend himself, Max invariably cleaved the things into ever-smaller pieces, which swarmed like ravenous jellyfish while the methodical grylmhoch bore down once again.†   (source)
  • Also, he felt ravenously hungry.†   (source)
  • And then with desire that was hopeless and tumultuous like ocean breakers of grief I found myself making ravenous love to Sophie.†   (source)
  • My lust was incredible—something prehensile, a groping snout of desire, slithering down the begrimed walls of the wretched old building, uncoiling itself across a fence, moving with haste serpentine and indecent to a point just short of her upturned rump, where in silent metamorphosis it blazingly flowered into the embodiment of myself, priapic, ravenous, yet under hair-trigger control.†   (source)
  • And her nervousness was heightened by the fact that conversation with Hoss was, indeed, something she ravenously desired.†   (source)
  • The mess was slippery, greasy and cold but she slurped it up ravenously, watching the rise and fall of Lotte's breast as she slept on the pallet nearby.†   (source)
  • He found a tortilla and began to eat ravenously.†   (source)
  • Gant ate ravenously and without caution.†   (source)
  • Most truly do I sign myself Your increasingly and ravenously affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE†   (source)
  • And the roads were crowded with men ravenous for work, murderous for work.†   (source)
  • Webb, facing half out, embarrassed, dunks doughnut and eats ravenously) Mr. Webb.†   (source)
  • Winfield sat up and drank his milk, and instantly he was ravenous.†   (source)
  • And he tore out another bite ravenously.†   (source)
  • On the last sentence it opened, horrible and vast, the skin stretching ravenously from bone to bone and tooth to tooth.†   (source)
  • Emily puts her books carefully at her L., Wally opens a book and at once starts to read while both eat ravenously.†   (source)
  • Too soon the moment of ravenous identity is over, and the appetite for happiness, and happiness, and still more happiness is glutted.†   (source)
  • I told him I was ravenously hungry, and he promptly turned to his wife and said he'd taken quite a fancy to me.†   (source)
  • The animals had been frightened, cold, ravenous, wild as forest creatures, the strong attacking the weak, the weak waiting for the weaker to die so they could eat them.†   (source)
  • I began to eat one ravenously.†   (source)
  • In the memories of those who lived through them, the grim days of plague do not stand out like vivid flames, ravenous and inextinguishable, beaconing a troubled sky, but rather like the slow, deliberate progress of some monstrous thing crushing out all upon its path.†   (source)
  • She was excited and eager—she saw at once how abundantly she could feed this ravenous hunger for knowledge, experience, wisdom.†   (source)
  • He had the most burning of all lusts—the lust of memory, the ravenous hunger of the will which tries to waken what is dead.†   (source)
  • He indicated as quickly as he could his ravenous hunger for pictures and print: sometimes they brought him great books profusely illustrated, and he bribed them desperately by cooing, shrieking with delight, making extravagant faces, and doing all the other things they understood in him.†   (source)
  • Day after day he became maniacally drunk, until he fixed himself in a state of constant insanity: in May she sent him off again to a sanitarium at Piedmont to take the "cure," which consisted simply in feeding him plainly and cheaply, and keeping him away from alcohol for six weeks, a regime which contributed no more ravenously to his hunger than it did to his thirst.†   (source)
  • If all his comrades had not been equally as ravenous he would have been ashamed.†   (source)
  • She could not have eaten more ravenously if she were starving.†   (source)
  • Carley had not needed sight of them to know she was hungry; they made her simply ravenous.†   (source)
  • He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.†   (source)
  • [He turns to the table and attacks the meal ravenously].†   (source)
  • He must be one of the monsters who are said to be growing up in Rome—Apollos ravenous as Cerberus.†   (source)
  • They are ravenously hungry again, you know.†   (source)
  • The girl emptied the stiffened mould into my hand, and I devoured it ravenously.†   (source)
  • "The beast! nothing more nor less than the squatter's hidden, ravenous, dangerous beast!"†   (source)
  • There are none so tender, or so young, or so innocent, as to escape his ravenous wishes.†   (source)
  • They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.†   (source)
  • Jurgis could see all the truth now—could see himself, through the whole long course of events, the victim of ravenous vultures that had torn into his vitals and devoured him; of fiends that had racked and tortured him, mocking him, meantime, jeering in his face.†   (source)
  • I was hungry, friend, nay, ravenous!†   (source)
  • SHIRLEY [looking at it ravenously but not touching it, and crying like a child] I never took anything before.†   (source)
  • Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realisation would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat, a quest of ravenous animals, to be torn and slashed by their hungry fangs, to be sustenance to them as the moose and the rabbit had often been sustenance to him.†   (source)
  • He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously — eventually 178 he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.†   (source)
  • They divided attention between the satisfying of ravenous appetites and a vigilant watching down the forest aisles.†   (source)
  • His flesh shrank together as it felt the approach of the ravenous tongues of flames, dried up as it felt about it the swirl of stifling air.†   (source)
  • Keeping one eye on the movements of his crew forward, he let loose his volubility—comparing the place to a "cage of beasts made ravenous by long impenitence."†   (source)
  • She thought of the ravenous beasts—in human shape—who lay in wait for their prey, and destroyed them, as mercilessly as any hungry wolf, for the satisfaction of their own appetite of hate.†   (source)
  • She was there for poor scared Mrs. Grose, but she was there most for Flora; and no moment of my monstrous time was perhaps so extraordinary as that in which I consciously threw out to her—with the sense that, pale and ravenous demon as she was, she would catch and understand it—an inarticulate message of gratitude.†   (source)
  • She was eating, ravenously.†   (source)
  • There now," and he pushed the rubber tip of the bottle into the nuzzling mouth and the lamb began to suck it with ravenous ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Buck was ravenous.†   (source)
  • The idle hours that fell to her lot were yet not many nor long enough for these ravenous hide-hunters.†   (source)
  • But there was little time to cry, and lovers now they fell ravenously on the quick seconds while outside the taxi windows the green and cream twilight faded, and the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost-green signs began to shine smokily through the tranquil rain.†   (source)
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