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She devoured everything on her plate in less than two minutes and asked for more.
devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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- The lions devoured the antelope.
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Instead of spraying for insects, he unleashed thousands of ladybugs and other beneficial insects that devoured the destructive ones.
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devoured = ate rapidly
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He devours a spoonful and says, "You're weird."
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devours = eats rapidly and completely
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Female fireflies draw in strange males with dishonest signals and eat them; mantis females devour their own mates. Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers.
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devour = eat
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Then the carrots. Again, he set two aside and devoured the third.
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devoured = ate rapidly
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I started devouring the sandwich.
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devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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We sat on the bed and all but devoured the food.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
- A few times, they even smuggled him smoked oysters. Louie devoured them and tiptoed to the fence to pitch the cans into Tokyo Bay. (source)
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Half of the tiny yard was a cement patio and the other half was another patch of grass that our imaginary cow would devour in two bites.
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devour = eat completely
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Mr. Hoo slammed the reservations book shut, pressed a hand against the pain in his ample stomach, unwrapped a chocolate bar, and devoured it quickly before acid etched another ulcer.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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Adelia's task would have been to design and order these dinners, then to avoid being seen to devour them.
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devour = eat rapidly and completely
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I watched him from my window and remembered a story he'd told me once about a great serpent that the men of the north believe in, which yearns to devour all the world.
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devour = eat completely
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After devouring half the liver, it started tugging on the whitish, balloon-like stomach bag.
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devouring = eating
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Cole squirted on a glob of ketchup, then devoured the hot dog.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
- Dill devoured it, chewing with his front teeth, as was his custom. (source)
- "It's not stealing, is it?" asked Hermione in a troubled voice, as they devoured scrambled eggs on toast. (source)
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Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.
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devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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"It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself." Faber glanced nervously at his bedroom door. "To see the firehouses burn across the land, destroyed as hotbeds of treason. The salamander devours his tail!"
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devours = eats rapidly and completely
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They wanted only to get away, far away, before the being who had been summoned like a dog turned and devoured them all.
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devoured = consumed (ate completely)
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Instead of imagining her under attack by the devouring worms of death, as he had in his despondency of recent months, he recalled her at a radiant and joyful age, her belly rounded under the Minervan tunic with the seed of her first child.
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devouring = eating
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The clan devoured my cooking and heaped praises upon me.
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devoured = ate
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The bread we had brought from Buna had long since been devoured.
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devoured = eaten rapidly and completely
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After Lexie had lit a candle, he stared at her over the small flame, marveling at the lingering flush of her cheeks, as he devoured the most delicious meal he'd ever tasted.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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After he had devoured the chocolate he felt somewhat ashamed of himself and hung about in the streets for several hours, until hunger drove him home.
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devoured = eaten rapidly and completely
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In the adjoining sector they attacked two large cats and a dog, bit them to death and devoured them.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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There were flavours on his palate that had lingered there not less than sixty or seventy years, and were still apparently as fresh as that of the mutton chop which he had just devoured for his breakfast.
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devoured = eaten
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I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.
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devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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I am inclined to envy Mr. Rushworth for having so much happiness yet before him. I have been a devourer of my own.
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devourer = to eat completely and rapidly (figurative)
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It didn't matter how much food he devoured, either through legitimate means or illicit activities.
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devoured = ate
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Then, just as the men were ready to devour the fruit, the order came to put it all back.
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devour = eat completely
- When the imaginary meal was prepared, the men would devour every crumb, describing each mouthful. (source)
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No matter how many calories he devoured, he always burned more.
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devoured = consumed (ate completely)
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Gypsy, another Lab with adventurous tastes, devoured a jalousie window.
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devoured = ate
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It could never be still, for its appetite drove it ever onwards, devouring everything bite by bite, and one day when it had eaten all the world, it would devour itself.
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devour = eat completely
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He was moving through them, blazing a trail of murder and mayhem, devouring one meerkat after another...
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devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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Also he may have been hungry: he'd devoured all of Myra's carefully packed sandwiches while I was sleeping, and the brownies into the bargain.
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devoured = eaten
- A case is mentioned in the literature of a stoat and a rat living in a companion relationship, while other rats presented to the stoat were devoured by it in the typical way of stoats. (source)
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It could never be still, for its appetite drove it ever onwards, devouring everything bite by bite, and one day when it had eaten all the world, it would devour itself.
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devouring = eating completely
- At night, the huntress Artemis is said to roam its hills with her shining bow, and in one of its shadowed caves Zeus himself was born and hidden from his devouring father. (source)
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Not only did they provide fresh eggs, but, when let loose to roam, they spent their days studiously scouring the property, eating bugs and grubs, devouring ticks, scratching up the soil like efficient little rototillers, and fertilizing with their high-nitrogen droppings as they went.
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devouring = eating
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I heard about shredded curtains, stolen lingerie, devoured birthday cakes, trashed auto interiors, great escapes, even a swallowed diamond engagement ring, which made Marley's taste for gold chains seem positively lowbrow by comparison.
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devoured = eaten
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Hunger devours me, I could almost weep for something to eat, I cannot struggle against it.
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devours = consumes (or in a figurative sense, eats away at)
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Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks and devour the tongue.
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devour = eat
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Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.
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devoured = ate rapidly
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She found Odysseus in the thick of slaughtered corpses,
splattered with bloody filth like a lion that's devoured
some ox of the field and lopes home, covered with blood, (source)devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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and you will find a world of pain at home,
crude, arrogant men devouring all your goods,
courting your noble wife, offering gifts to win her. (source)devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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he knocked them dead like pups—
their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor—
and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal
he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, left no scrap,
devoured entrails, flesh and bones, marrow and all! (source)devoured = ate rapidly and completely
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But he could not save them from disaster, hard as he strove—
the recklessness of their own ways destroyed them all,
the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun
and the Sungod wiped from sight the day of their return. (source)
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…a flighty, weak-willed boy these days.
You'll waste time, roaming around our holdings,
probing the fieldhands man by man, while the suitors
sit at ease in our house, devouring all our goods—
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap! (source)devouring = eating rapidly and completely
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Whatever the case, the mouse was bitten by a young viper but devoured—and immediately—by an adult.
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devoured = eaten rapidly and completely
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She devoured everything he wrote.
devoured = read with eager interest
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She devours anything written about him.
devours = reads with eager interest
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Some of them were about romance, and although Reenie devoured these we had little use for them.
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devoured = read with eager interest
- I devoured books about young-earth creationism, and joined online chat rooms to challenge scientists on the theory of evolution. (source)
- I suspect she suspected that I had a different take on the matter, but she never said anything when as a child I devoured the comic books of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and an illustrated children's Bible and other stories of the gods. (source)
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I am very impressed, you really devoured that book, didn't you?
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devoured = read completely with eager interest
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"Someone who devours books like you should have this one," she said.
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devours = reads rapidly
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Even during his adolescence he had devoured, in the order of their appearance, all the volumes of the Popular Library that Transito Ariza bought from the bargain booksellers at the Arcade of the Scribes, where one could find everything from Homer to the least meritorious of the local poets.
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devoured = read with eager interest
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I ran down to the bookstore and returned with a small fortune in reading materials, which Jenny devoured in the first three days.
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devoured = read completely with eager interest
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Quickly I devoured letters from Joe and John and Mum and Dad.
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devoured = read
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He spent hours devouring every Iranian publication he could obtain.
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devouring = reading with eager interest
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When she was five she had often practiced reading the old-fashioned, spindly lettering: Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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devoured = read with eager interest ("eaten rapidly" in a figurative sense)
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I saw the mudslide devour the road.
devour = completely engulf (cover)
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The entire block was devoured in the fire.
devoured = completely consumed or destroyed
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Over a thousand acres of the forest was devoured by the flames.
devoured = completely consumed or destroyed (in this case, burned)
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Something was written under the image in italics but I couldn't understand it. It had one of those black-hole words, right in the middle, devouring the rest.
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devouring = consuming or destroying completely
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Pa cruised slowly back onto a bright sea—the sun taking less time to devour the fog than it took Jumpin' to fill a tank.
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devour = consume or eliminate
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Our own street was on a hill, so we were a bit better protected from the overflowing river, but we shivered at the sound of it, a growling heavy-breathing dragon devouring everything in its path.
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devouring = swallowing (completely surrounding and covering)
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We stood on the street watching the flames devour the shack.
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devour = destroy (completely burn up)
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For the children, there are small gods of sweetened bread for them to eat; for the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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devour = consume or destroy completely
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The only path safe from her reach would take him into the devouring whirlpool of Charybdis.
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devouring = consuming (as though to swallow ships)
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Inch by inch the billowing flames devoured the supplies and the shelter.
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devoured = destroyed (completely burned up)
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Immediately Meg was swept into darkness, into nothingness, and then into the icy devouring cold of the Black Thing.
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devouring = swallowing (completely surrounding and covering)
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We stood watching the street fill with men and cars while fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house.
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devoured = destroyed
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And then Harry heard a thin, piteous human scream from amidst the terrible commotion, the thunder of devouring flame.
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devouring = destructive
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As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it.
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devours = destroys or consumes
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The flames kept dividing, devouring stack after stack of shirtwaists, racing each other down the tables.
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devouring = destroying (burning up)
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Mo was right: Fear devours everything.
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devours = destroys
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Soon the whole stove was covered with hot flames that licked and devoured everything they touched.
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devoured = destroyed
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At one point Hildebranda confessed that when Dr. Juvenal Urbino covered his eyes and she saw the splendor of his perfect teeth between his rosy lips, she had felt an irresistible desire to devour him with kisses.
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devour = cover or engulf
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That's why she keeps talking about a fire devouring her.
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devouring = consuming or destroying completely
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My brain seemed to lurch full speed back into life, flooding with milky-white images of the two of us sitting in front his desk, staring at each other as a fire devoured everything around us.
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devoured = consumed or destroyed completely
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The Chicago Tribune Building would hold off the devouring flames much longer than most buildings.
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devouring = destructive or consuming
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Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
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devoured = destroyed
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The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.
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devouring = consuming (as though to swallow the ship)
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My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.
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devouring = consuming
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Sometimes he was red as fire, sometimes gray as the ash to which fire turns all that it devours.
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devours = destroys (burns up completely)
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I mention it to no one, but it devours my waking hours and weaves itself throughout my nightmares.
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devours = consumes
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Great gods smell fear like sharks smell blood, and they will devour you for it just the same.
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devour = consume or destroy completely
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A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.
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devoured = consumed or destroyed completely
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A nightmarish red began to creep through the snow like spilled ink spreading, expanding, devouring.
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devouring = consuming or destroying completely
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The stars were only sparks of the fire, which devoured us.
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devoured = consumed or destroyed completely
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They saw the walls still intact, the brambles in the streets, the fortifications devoured by heartsease, the marble palaces and the golden altars and the Viceroys rotting with plague inside their armor.
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devoured = destroyed
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...and all around them the last few objects unburned by the devouring flames were flung into the air, as the creatures of the cursed fire cast them high in celebration: cups and shields, a sparkling necklace, and an old, discolored tiara — "What are you doing, what are you doing, the door's that way!"…
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devouring = destroyed (burned up)
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I was experiencing nostalgia for the life I'd had before, which I would lose at any second, when the world turned and began to devour itself.
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devour = consume or destroy completely
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She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her omnipotent father was doing nothing.
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devoured = swallowed (completely surrounded and covered)
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Sometimes he was red as fire, sometimes as gray as the ashes into which fire turns all that it devours.
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devours = destroys (burns up completely)
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The river became muddy and narrow, and instead of the tangle of colossal trees that had astonished Florentino Ariza on his first voyage, there were calcinated flatlands stripped of entire forests that had been devoured by the boilers of the riverboats, and the debris of godforsaken villages whose streets remained flooded even in the crudest droughts.
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devoured = consumed or destroyed
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"Fire devours books," he always said, but she was twelve years old, she surely could be trusted to keep an eye on a couple of candle flames.
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devours = destroys (burns up)
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He made the torches disappear as if the darkness had devoured them, bowed to the speechless Meggie with a smile, before once more spitting fire out into the night's black face.
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devoured = swallowed (completely surrounded and covered)
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Gray walls and concrete floors had bleached out almost every memory of my parents' house, stripping away first the small details—the smell of my mom's honey-soaked biscuits, the order of the pictures lining the staircase wall—before going on to devour the bigger ones, too.
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devour = consume or destroy completely
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I didn't feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety.
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devouring = consuming
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Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo?
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devouring = consuming or destroying completely
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My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
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devouring = destructive (consuming)
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Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.
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devouring = consuming
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So, we will devour your worldly goods and wealth
as long as she holds out, holds to that course
the gods have charted deep inside her heart.
Great renown she wins for herself, no doubt,
great loss for you in treasure. (source)devour = consuming (using up) completely
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The mobs were set to destroy him, rip his life out,
devour his vast wealth to their heart's content, (source)devour = consume or destroy completely
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You know it all.
Or is he too—like father, like son—condemned
to hardship, roving over the barren salt sea
while strangers devour our livelihood right here? (source)
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Don't rove from home too long,
too far, leaving your own holdings unprotected—
crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all, (source)
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It's wrong, Telemachus, wrong to rove so far,
so long from home, leaving your own holdings
unprotected—crowds in your palace so brazen
they'll carve up all your wealth, devour it all, (source)
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Your way is a far cry from the time-honored way
of suitors locked in rivalry, striving to win
some noble woman, a wealthy man's daughter.
They bring in their own calves and lambs
to feast the friends of the bride-to-be, yes,
and shower her with gleaming gifts as well.
They don't devour the woman's goods scot-free. (source)
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See to your feasting elsewhere,
devour your own possessions, house to house by turns.
But if you decide the fare is better, richer here,
destroying one man's goods and going scot-free,
all right then, carve away!
But I'll cry out to the everlasting gods in hopes
that Zeus will pay you back with a vengeance—all of you (source)
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My house is being devoured, my rich farms destroyed,
my palace crammed with enemies, slaughtering on and on
my droves of sheep and shambling longhorn cattle. (source)devoured = consumed or destroyed completely
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... Better for me
if you were devouring all my treasure, all my cattle—
...we'd make amends in no time.
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But now, look, you load my heart with grief—
there's nothing I can do! (source)devouring = consuming or destroying completely
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The prince's wealth will be devoured as always,
mercilessly—no reparations, ever …. not
while the queen drags out our hopes to wed her,
waiting, day after day, all of us striving hard
to win one matchless beauty. (source)devoured = consumed or destroyed completely
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Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine. (source)devouring = consuming (destroying completely)
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The fire-eater's in love with Resa, I said, he'd devour her with his eyes if he could, but the others wouldn't believe me.
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devour = engulf
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- The entire forest seemed like a mulberry leaf being devoured by silkworms on all sides.† (source)
- Apocalyptic imagery filled the weekly sermons and the Left Behind books (one of the best-selling fiction series of all time, which I devoured).† (source)
- Walking around the side of the block, Lale pulls the chunk of stale bread from his sleeve and offers it to Leon, who devours it.† (source)
- Amanda, the friend who took her out to dinner the last Saturday of her life, remembers that she also loved Shakespeare: She devoured it.† (source)
- Thomas's stomach begged him to hurry; he picked up his sandwich and started devouring it.† (source)
- I devoured all of it in a few minutes.† (source)
- Insects had devoured most of the leaves and vegetables, leaving behind skeletons of stems and branches.† (source)
- Sophie devoured them all.† (source)
- Of course, Tally would have happily devoured anything that wasn't SpagBol.† (source)
- He'd come to see a message in each such late history, a message and a warning, and so this tableau of the slain and the devoured did prove to be.† (source)
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- You three and Dumbledore are the only ones around here who know I'm an Animagus," said Sirius, shrugging, and continuing to devour the chicken leg.† (source)
- He wished he had not devoured all the apples on the tree.† (source)
- The atmosphere feels hungry, like every sixteen-year-old is trying to devour as much as he can get of this last day.† (source)
- She devoured the entire bowl, the crushed-pistachio topping, the tiny rice noodles at the bottom.† (source)
- Rhonda Kazembe had already brought them bowls of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, which they'd eagerly devoured; now she set out a great platter of fruit, and as the children reached happily for bananas and grapes and pears, she sat down and joined them.† (source)
- People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip, and on previous trips to England, I had always done the same.† (source)
- She would be devoured.† (source)
- The sad thing about all that hard labor was that, in the end, it all went to ruin, because the rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals.† (source)
- I devour it all.† (source)
- But they weren't positively certain until later, when they watched him devour a pack of butterscotch Krimpets.† (source)
- He has the sensation that something huge and empty is about to devour them all.† (source)
- Behind us, it's being sucked into a black hole, and the hole chases us as it expands, devouring everything in its path.† (source)
- Once, in despair, he referred to Prometheus, chained to a rock, his liver devoured daily by a vulture.† (source)
- He'd devoured them anyway; also some lemons.† (source)
- I watched, over the years, as they devoured her, piece by piece, until she disappeared and became a ghost.† (source)
- The way his eyes gleam makes me feel like a meal about to be devoured.† (source)
- I step back inside the little shed and devour the apple down to the core.† (source)
- The forest that had seemed to devour its walls stood at a respectful distance.† (source)
- I no longer cared when she made fun of me, as I hurried to devour even the smallest morsel.† (source)
- There's just the sound of the Dreidel devouring the blacktop as she speeds downhill.† (source)
- When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve to take it.† (source)
- Investors who wanted to devour unwilling targets needed help with their legal strategy, and shareholders needed formal representation.† (source)
- The terrible darkness sweeping up behind to devour her.† (source)
- Not the flickery stuff I wore last year in the chariot, but something much more real that devours my dress.† (source)
- The gaping crack looked like an evil smiling mouth, ready to devour them.† (source)
- Within seconds we were devouring the pages.† (source)
- The city devoured them.† (source)
- Are all the others animals, waiting only to devour?† (source)
- The white-hot reaction devoured the surrounding oxygen in a nanosecond and surged down the path of least resistance, which was, of course, immediately after LEP Commander Root.† (source)
- The Train That Devours.† (source)
- He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once.† (source)
- The way his eyes devoured me hinted I shouldn't take the bait, but I did anyhow.† (source)
- He helped himself to a piece of chicken, which he devoured hungrily.† (source)
- Prison stew," he'd sniff, coming back a few minutes later to help himself before the masses devoured it.† (source)
- I should have been devoured in my bed, for all I seem to be worth.† (source)
- Dinner had been served and eagerly devoured.† (source)
- A flash of bright light devours everything, the world dimming away into a soundless void.† (source)
- In the other room he could feel his daughter sleeping while the great worm devoured her.† (source)
- We probably devoured a world-record amount of food that weekend.† (source)
- Every Chicago resident who could read devoured these reports from abroad, but none with quite so much intensity as Dr. H. H. Holmes.† (source)
- D. H. Lawrence gave us any number of short stories where characters devour and destroy one another in life-and-death contests of will, novellas like "The Fox" (1923) and even novels like Women in Love (1920), in which Gudrun Brangwen and Gerald Crich, although ostensibly in love with one another, each realize that only one of them can survive and so engage in mutually destructive behavior.† (source)
- He's devoured everything with equal enthusiasm.† (source)
- I devoured them, savoring the adventures they brought to me.† (source)
- Terrified of insects, she could have fled and left me to be devoured.† (source)
- The euphoria of our conquest drives me through the subsequent feeding frenzy in high gear, but within minutes of devouring my last slice whole, I begin to slip.† (source)
- In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.† (source)
- He loosed a Fire Elemental after us, a savage, mindless creature that almost devoured the city.† (source)
- Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.† (source)
- You can understand why women always threaten to devour children: She is just to eat!† (source)
- =========================== The hands move, the lips move — Ideas gush from his words, And his eyes devour!† (source)
- Kant is trying to save scientific empiricism from the consequences of its own self-devouring logic.† (source)
- And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.† (source)
- She must travel in it easily or her own heart would devour her and she would not endure the war un-wounded, as she still hoped to do.† (source)
- But during the feast, the bride—Thor, that is—devours an entire ox and eight salmon.† (source)
- When it is, I'll devour you, all of you, and everything you hold precious.† (source)
- I end up sitting with my back against a tree, devouring six oranges, one right after the other.† (source)
- Her hand tightened around my own, her eyes devouring the scene around her.† (source)
- It looked like a black dragon devouring everything it touched.† (source)
- The cat sniffs it cautiously and then devours it excitedly.† (source)
- Their enormous front teeth tore at the unprotected flesh of his left shoulder, and he had no idea if Buttercup was already half devoured; he only knew that if he didn't do something desperate right then and right there she soon would be.† (source)
- The boy walked with them to the car, leaving the old man to devour a fresh stack of pancakes.† (source)
- Usually, Josie limited herself to three Tater Tots, and then gave the rest to the guys to devour.† (source)
- I looked for something to read, examining Moody's bookcase for something in English that I had not already devoured from cover to cover.† (source)
- As we make out, I shrug off my jeans and briefs and hug her tight, devouring the softness and warmth of her body against mine.† (source)
- If the bear did not eat them, the ever-present ravens would devour them soon enough.† (source)
- 'After a pleasant chat with the princesses, all that remains is a leisurely ride back through those chaotic crags whose frightening fiends have sworn to tear any intruder limb from limb and devour him down to his belt buckle.† (source)
- His son searched him, took the bread, and began to devour it.† (source)
- The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.† (source)
- He grabs the crab from behind as it emerges from its hole and rips off the claws and throws them away and then devours the rest of the crab.† (source)
- For Frith has given the fox and the weasel cunning hearts and sharp teeth, and to the cat he has given silent feet and eyes that can see in the dark, and they are gone away from Frith's place to kill and devour all that belongs to El-ahrairah."† (source)
- Yolanda eats several right on the spot, relishing the slightly bumpy feel of the skin in her hand, devouring the crunchy, sweet white meat.† (source)
- How often she had stood at that very window devouring these same words, not realizing then, as she did now, what deep meaning was in each phrase, how the feeling expressed increased from the first to the last.† (source)
- I rounded up the little kids and passed out all my candy stash, which they gleefully devoured.† (source)
- If we go on like this we'll be devoured by animals.† (source)
- It continued driving the fire through the heart of Chicago, devouring churches, banks, publishing houses and printers, breweries, grain elevators, lumberyards, and department stores as if they were constructed of brittle hay.† (source)
- Harris listened to the younger man for five minutes, sipping his coffee and devouring a couple of jelly donuts.† (source)
- By my junior year, I devoured increasingly adult fare.† (source)
- It didn't help that the forlorn women who were arriving at Mukhtar's doorstep were devouring the family's food and monopolizing the outhouse.† (source)
- Johnny devoured great literature.† (source)
- It devours him.† (source)
- Scripture by scripture Janice devoured her new Bible, until one morning, as she stood in her kitchen, she asked Jesus into her heart.† (source)
- We devour the food like hungry tigers.† (source)
- Watching the ardor with which the meat was devoured, Mortenson realized how rare such a meal was for the people of Korphe, and how close they lived to hunger.† (source)
- His mother had fallen asleep, and the kids who lived there had devoured his portion.† (source)
- So when he saw the woman at the top of the stairs there was no way for him to resist climbing up toward her outstretched hands, her fingers spread wide for him, her mouth gaping open for him, her eyes devouring him.† (source)
- I rolled over, burying my face in my pillow, assuming it was one of my mother's cats, which were all having minor breakdowns in her absence, attacking my door in an effort to get me to feed them more Fancy Feast, which they devoured by the case.† (source)
- All his life Ira devoured all kinds of books.† (source)
- What did it matter if I were devoured ten miles from my destination or forty?† (source)
- So that worms can devour him?† (source)
- You see, though still bound by desire of it, the Ring was no longer devouring him; he began to revive a little.† (source)
- Ordo Maas's sons served them cups of hot tea and a platter of bread thick with pepper, which they needed little encouragement to devour.† (source)
- Devoured alive.† (source)
- She gnawed as if she meant to devour his flesh, and then Lestat showed her what to do.† (source)
- Soon afterward he was running everywhere, devouring drape fringes, Oriental rugs, and all the table legs.† (source)
- In the beginning General Dreedle devoured all his meals in Milo's mess hall.† (source)
- The puff stretched out into a circle that became a tiny white snake, which then bit into its own tail, devouring itself until it disappeared.† (source)
- Sure, an old reference (for years, Cedric has devoured old sitcoms), but it's right on.† (source)
- When injured, a hyena will tear at its own insides and begin to devour them.† (source)
- Not to mention, how he could stomach the touch of one without devouring every drop of her.† (source)
- That is good, the coyotes will have sport when they devour you tonight—!† (source)
- I don't think Shiva ever read it, certainly not like he devoured his Gray's.† (source)
- And then I want to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can't understand.† (source)
- Eying the fruit in Tom's hand with a glint of desperation, she reached up, snatched the fruit, and began devouring.† (source)
- Giant, insect-like cotton pickers crept through the fields, devouring four rows at a time while trailers waited to collect their harvest.† (source)
- "It was a savage feast, carnivorous animals devouring their prey," he wrote in his diary.† (source)
- Still in flight, her powerful jaws closed on the insect and devoured it.† (source)
- Lourdes devours every last morsel.† (source)
- And try not to let fear for Jace devour you.† (source)
- I snatched an ox and devoured it, leaving no trace.† (source)
- The guys hurried to surround the table—which looked tiny and in danger of being crushed by them—and devoured the buffet-sized pan of eggs Emily placed in their midst in record time.† (source)
- It would devour that moon if it could.† (source)
- Watching girls and devouring them with your eyes—rape by eyeball—was something you did automatically.† (source)
- He devours several books a week.† (source)
- Only those who add to my life, not those who devour it, are my market.† (source)
- Back then, this would've been like the pictures Mr. Lesole has of mudholes in Mfuala Park: the nearby trees stunted, dead or dying, their leaves devoured, their bark ringed by elephant tusks; the vegetation by the water trampled to bare mud.† (source)
- I was putting myself out there to be eaten by a beast that had already devoured three people.† (source)
- Her bugs and beetles and other insects often go beyond her obvious intentions, devouring the leaves and buds with which she has adorned her countryside.† (source)
- It would finally stop this pain that is devouring my heart like a fast-acting cancer.† (source)
- He continued to read diplomacy and to devour the several newspapers that arrived with the dawn.† (source)
- His only response is to pop open another beer and attack the thirty-five pounds of meat with his tongs like it's in danger of rising up and devouring us all.† (source)
- They are seen as monsters that will devour everyone.† (source)
- How Errtu wished that it could simply devour Kessell and flee with the relic before the dark elves were too involved!† (source)
- They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction.† (source)
- It pained her to see how fast the children devoured this simple meal.† (source)
- His chest heaved as though it was all he could do to refrain from devouring me.† (source)
- The beast clawed at them both, devouring even when he was deep inside her, pumping wildly.† (source)
- If the man lets go of the tiger, it will devour him.† (source)
- I discovered that, although wolves reputedly devour several hundred people in the Arctic Zone every year, they will always refrain from attacking a pregnant Eskimo.† (source)
- But it was more than a body count; the lies devoured white hearts, and for more than two hundred years white people had worked to fill their emptiness; they tried to glut the hollowness with patriotic wars and with great technology and the wealth it brought.† (source)
- He watched with pleasure as Stink and Eddie and Oscar devoured the food.† (source)
- Up to the last week, Cooper and I kept going to the Winklers' farm to buy butter, sweet milk and buttermilk for the family, and as always it was devoured immediately.† (source)
- They still swim upstream, but gently, letting the river carry them downstream tail first, and the birds and the larger fish prey upon them to devour them, and pretty soon they turn to face their dangers.† (source)
- It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books.† (source)
- Her heart swooned in those depths; she grew faint, unsteady, and she felt herself in the grip of an aching, devouring love.† (source)
- Every book I seized on, from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While to Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted.† (source)
- "Villain," said Reepicheep to the dragon, "have you devoured a Narnian lord?"† (source)
- Always we turned outward to where they would drift when they left Yamacraw, to the world of lights and easy people, to the dark cities that would devour their innocence and harden their dreams.† (source)
- Will Hamilton sat at the corner table, devouring a rib steak.† (source)
- If there only was a tiger a devour him!† (source)
- V Girt about with lightnings, standard-bearer, armed with the sword, the wheel, the bow, devourer, sustainer.† (source)
- She would sit all day and devour it line by line.† (source)
- Yura devoured them with his eyes.† (source)
- The shops have been plundered; they just devour everything.† (source)
- Do you want to devour pot and all?† (source)
- Her curse had devoured the first Royal; he had been begotten in sin, and he had perished in sin; it was God's punishment, and it was just.† (source)
- How does one persuade a cat not to devour one?† (source)
- And there they stood in the dead city, a heap of boys, their hiking lunches half devoured, daring each other in shrieky whispers.† (source)
- They ate it cold, but it tasted like the grandest meal ever to Thomas, and he devoured every bite.† (source)
- I recognized May's handwriting instantly and tore open the envelope, devouring her words.† (source)
- It devoured the scrolls of famous scholars who had used our ink.† (source)
- Uncle Shepsel devoured his piece at once.† (source)
- Langdon's trained eye devoured it in gulps.† (source)
- It was devouring everything in its path.† (source)
- I had never seen them cook a meal, not even the rare corpse of an arboreal they devoured.† (source)
- We saw them devoured by a beast that turned them to ash.† (source)
- Or rather, the Hermes girls were talking while Meg devoured a cheeseburger.† (source)
- A weird and horrible new reality had opened up, devouring the world she knew and understood.† (source)
- DEVOURED Many migrants who first set out on the train with Enrique have been caught and deported.† (source)
- The water devoured the cabinets and windows.† (source)
- Peter had devoured it too often to bear it that it might have been Valentine all along.† (source)
- Kathy devoured it all—the fresh vegetables and fish, the yogurts, the lamb!† (source)
- The Circle has been devouring all competitors for years, correct?† (source)
- In a matter of seconds, the nosos had been torn to shreds and devoured.† (source)
- Only now their teeth could tear; Ender, weaponless, was quickly devoured.† (source)
- The one where the kids pitch their ideas, hoping the Circle buys them and devours them.† (source)
- Light flooded into the void, devouring the smallest shadow, down to the last one.† (source)
- David began devouring the toast, speaking with a full mouth.† (source)
- He devoured it, first reading it in French, then memorizing the English text.† (source)
- Fires; especially big ones, moved and danced and destroyed and devoured.† (source)
- Fenris grew so savage he would've devoured the gods.† (source)
- I even love the munchies, the perfect excuse for devouring a pint of Häagen-Dazs.† (source)
- Devoured by a hollow in some Welsh backwater!† (source)
- Deedee eagerly devoured her dinner, probably the first decent meal she'd had in a while.† (source)
- "The all-devouring maw of the ocean," proclaimed Uthar.† (source)
- Devoured Aamon and executed all of his officers.† (source)
- After she had devoured half a loaf, Elva paused.† (source)
- At the end a dragon hatches from an egg and devours all of the lions.† (source)
- I have no intention of being devoured by those ridiculous ogres.† (source)
- And he loved us so much that he sent us to the pit, to be devoured by lions.† (source)
- She snatched them from his hand, her red-rimmed eyes devouring the contents.† (source)
- The mob devoured all the food in the clubhouse.† (source)
- Many fair things Saruman has destroyed: has he devoured the springs of Isen too?† (source)
- He wants to major in marine biology, something less frenetic and devouring than what his parents do.† (source)
- I haven't devoured a soul in…what month is this?† (source)
- The war had now devoured $88 billion out of a fiscal year budget of $99 billion.† (source)
- So long as living flesh was prey to be devoured, did it matter whose stomachs it had gone to fill?† (source)
- The sight of dogs devouring corpses was nothing to him anymore, compared to the sight of this woman.† (source)
- When it was being built, many of the men brought from India to work on it were devoured by lions.† (source)
- I'm panicked; I shall be devoured by it if I don't let it free.† (source)
- I threw myself upon her and she devoured me with every part of her body that could move or be moved.† (source)
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