All 3 Uses of
devour
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Dead breaths I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead.†
Chpt 3
- Devour contents in the street.†
Chpt 8 *
- …was in the sootcoated kettle to be done so that she and he could drink it with the oatmealwater for milk after the Friday herrings they had eaten at two a penny with an egg apiece for Maggy, Boody and Katey, the cat meanwhile under the mangle devouring a mess of eggshells and charred fish heads and bones on a square of brown paper, in accordance with the third precept of the church to fast and abstain on the days commanded, it being quarter tense or if not, ember days or something like…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(devour as in: devoured three sandwiches) eat rapidly and completely -- usually due to being very hungry