How To Use Devour In A Sentence
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A savage beast devoured him!
WALKING THE BIBLE
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You have devoured all when you were standing godmother.
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Sadly, because we found our wine so late, and things have been hectic with a sick 9-month old here at the LENNDEVOURS world headquarters there wasn't time for a full-fledge review, meaning that I didn't taste it blind or even pull my notebook out.
Wine Blogging Wednesday
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It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
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With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan,
Carrion Comfort « Unknowing
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One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals.
Wired Top Stories
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So my parents encouraged me to read, to join the library, to devour books.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dead breathe I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead.
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And further, it seemeth very likely that the inhabitants of the most part of those countries, by which they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or men-eaters, would have devoured them, slain them, or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze.
The North-West Passage
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This recipe will make around six to eight pancakes - but be warned, you may want to double up as they get devoured pretty quickly!
The Sun
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But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair.
South Wind
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He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
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Even boys - traditionally reluctant readers - were devouring it under the blankets.
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Here the devouring jaw is a symbol of corporeal disintegration; it reverses the process of reintegrating the perfected body and soul at the time of the Resurrection.
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The birds and lady-beetles devour them bodily, the larvæ of the lace-wings and syrphid-flies extract their blood while the wasps live as internal parasites.
An Elementary Study of Insects
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The schizoid devours the eyewinker may be caused by thinking obstacle, also may be the method that a kind of impulsive act perhaps considers to serve as the suicide with this.
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But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible.
Robert Falconer
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The film led me to the books and I devoured them.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the pop-culture machine currently devouring everything even remotely surf-related, it might at first seem odd that Hollywood hasn't started nosing around Newport Beach.
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As you devour this book, you will be swept away to another world - and want to stay there.
The Sun
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Fearing I would soon be totally devoured, I broke away from a pash for the second time in the space of about half an hour - surely a new record.
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Calling all Ghosts PETE, BOB AND JUPITER sat round the desk in Head - quarters, devouring the sandwiches Jupiter had brought.
The Mystery of The Stuttering Parrot
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If the South seceded, the European superpowers would have cooked, carved and devoured the weakened American eagle.
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Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
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YOU could devour the book at one sitting or read it a chapter at a time, some only three pages long.
The Sun
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This continent bore a very advanced civilization, but was devoured by the ocean in some unspecified catastrophe.
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Fully - charged Devourers will rip apart a large Scorpion army quite quickly.
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We started making less vegetable platters than were ordered, figuring the food waste was too great to prep them in advance and we could throw a replacement together quickly if the guests devoured the first ones we sent out.
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Observe the patellae -- with what tenacity they cling to save themselves from being washed into the deep water, and being devoured by the fishes that are playing in its chasms!
The King's Own
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Naples was altogether different, but even here it must be admitted that her conception of deserving people was not at all that set forth in those novels of Dostoievski which Albertine had taken from my shelves and devoured, that is to say in the guise of wheedling parasites, thieves, drunkards, at one moment stupid, at another insolent, debauchees, at a pinch murderers.
The Captive
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The hungry part of him very much wanted to devour the shrew, bitter bit included, while the rest of him rebelled.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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We are all pretty well, but all but devoured by multitudinous and multivarious beasts of prey -- birds, I suppose they are: mosquitoes, ants, and flies, by day; and flies, fleas, and worse, by night.
Records of a Girlhood
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There he would have been devoured by wild animals.
Times, Sunday Times
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When she had been a little accustomed to me, she would not part with me; I have been so happy as to make myself useful to her and her children; and in acquitting myself as far as I could of my debt of gratitude, I have found the best and only defence against that regret and anguish which devoured me.
The Old Manor House
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He has constructed a pandaemonium in an upper story of his museum, in which he has congregated all the images of horror that his fertile fancy could devise; dwarfs that by machinery grow into giants before the eyes of the spectator; imps of ebony with eyes of flame; monstrous reptiles devouring youth and beauty; lakes of fire, and mountains of ice; in short, wax, paint and springs have done wonders.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Marshmallow, which grows in the primordial bogs and swamplands, was harvested and used to fashion these crude idols, which were then devoured to cure thigh ache.
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They let their sword devour for ever, not considering that it would be bitterness in the latter end, as Abner pleads long after, when he was at the head of an army of Benjamites, probably with an eye to this very story, 2 Sam. ii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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What I didn't know was then as each one ran out, Matt was chucking them onto the roaring bonfire to be devoured by the flames.
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Although it is variously described as a devouring beast that is never satisfied (see Proverbs 27:20) and a gloomy abode (see Job 10:21), it was not a place of punishment, but rather the destiny of all human souls.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
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But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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She settled back in bed and eagerly devoured the plain, institutional meal.
WHO KILLED TIFFANY JONES?
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The men saw no problem in hitting the food tables and creatively devouring their pizza in a kind of pseudo-seal eating motion.
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Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small.
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So powerful was Doc's association of reading with eating, that he not only devoured books as a boy, but he also voraciously read cereal boxes if the paper was not at hand.
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Finally, at the end of the day it was a Fairly Odd Parents episode that needed a giant tentacled monster that was devouring the world.
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In these papyri, artists have great fun imagining the Devourer – part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus.
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This theatre of war alone devoured 30,000 Soviet lives.
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And if it all gets too much you can munch yourself into a stupor by devouring zero-rated rum babas.
Budget: VAT rise will add £33 to average shopping basket
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Cicero, on the other hand, it seems to me, after the manner of a widespread conflagration, rolls on with all-devouring flames, having within him an ample and abiding store of fire, distributed now at this point now at that, and fed by an unceasing succession.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Devouring Plague: The bonus coefficient has been increased to be on par with other DoT spells.
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Half my guests don't eat meat and are more than happy to devour black empanditas filled with calamari plied with saffron and squid ink.
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The result is we gorge on special diets, feast on miracle fitness plans and devour self-help books.
The Sun
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The birds also eat bugs and weeds, they happily devour food scraps such as wilted lettuce and carrot tops, and their manure can be composted into garden fertilizer.
Lame Duck, Duck!
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VD speaks in intimidating, poorly-enunciated monosyllables and eventually helps a couple members of the original party make it to safety, though everyone else gets devoured by the light-hating bug aliens of DOOM.
Tuesday hodge-podge post
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Since my trip, I've devoured books on Latin cultures, traditions, histories, and individuals that shaped each of the places I visited and, of course, the place I came from, Puerto Rico.
Marie Elena Martinez: Reflecting on Hispanic Heritage Through the Lens of Travel
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If we ponder this thought, we shall perhaps discover the reason for the mysterious accord between works of Catholic inspiration, like those of my friend Graham Greene, and the vast dechristianized public that devours his books and loves his films.
François Mauriac - Banquet Speech
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Each man grabbed his share with avidity, and there and then devoured it with such gulosity that, in less than half an hour after its death, only the hoofs remained.
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I devoured tapes and books on how to perform wudu (ablution before prayers).
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Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
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In the hungry light of the houseboat he could see the fiery ravishment of her legs and belly; he could smell the other man, and her devourment of him.
Tours of the Black Clock
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Opposite me, a porky man devoured his three double cheeseburgers in a panic.
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There he would have been devoured by wild animals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
Making Light: Open thread 136
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She hit the Platters rocks, close to the shore just west of the suspension bridge, and a fire devoured what remained above the water.
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The Venus flytrap is a must for boys who enjoy watching the insectivorous plant capture its prey - usually a housefly - before devouring it over several days.
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This is a worm "_sui generis_," the mode of its propagation being entirely unknown; and from its being the only living creature (man excepted) that will devour this plant, [B] it is called "_tobacco worm_.
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
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One dusty street has all the town's shops, with a small grid of deteriorating roads and tumbledown shacks huddling between the sea and the low, brushy jungle that somehow looks poised to devour the suburbs.
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Mr Johnnie Walker, on the other hand, is a villainous incorporation of bloodthirsty evil as he murders cats, devours their hearts live and deep freezes their heads.
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Remaining vultures grab slabs of softened gristle and greedily devour them.
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His food was brought to him every day, a mess of grain in the husk, in a truck — a small railway truck, like one of the trucks he was perpetually filling with chalk, and this load he used to char in an old limekiln and then devour.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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I sit on the terrace in the Plaza Mayor, devouring buttery tostadas con mermelada and the local churros - tubular donuts designed to make you feel all warm and continental inside.
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This beautiful book is a fitting tribute that any film buff will devour.
The Sun
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Fire devoured a huge area of forest.
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An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore.
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Ask the wretched hunter of chevreuil, the poor devourer of rehbraten, what they think of the noble English haunch, that, after bounding in the Park of Knole or Windsor, exposes its magnificent flank upon some broad silver platter at our tables?
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
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Immediately, we devoured our food, savoring the taste.
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At least one of the devoured primates, an early ape called Proconsul, is thought to have been an ancestor to both modern humans and chimpanzees.
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I used to devour my copies of Swimming World and read about how my competitors were doing, so when I got to the meet, I knew exactly what to expect from them.
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A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food per day.
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Mrs Proudie in truth believed that the archdeacon was an actual emanation from Satan, sent to those parts to devour souls — as she would call it — and that she herself was an emanation of another sort, sent from another source expressly to Barchester, to prevent such devouring, as far as it might possibly be prevented by a mortal agency.
A dollop from Trollope | clusterflock
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Immediately, we devoured our food, savoring the taste.
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Antonio devoured half his burger in one bite.
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She was devoured with anxiety.
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I am taking a keen interest in bird watching and feeding a troop of greedy sparrows who are devouring everything I put out there.
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The world's growing population is devouring seafood as quickly as it can be caught and has seriously depleted the world's wild fish stocks.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had been watching Hawthorne devour an old Golf Digest Magazine while on a long bus ride.
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He never missed a chance of securing a hatful of grubs, which, together with the chrysalides and the full-grown beetle (brown and glossy) were devoured after being warmed through on the ashes.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Made from those biscuits you get with coffee in hotels, we want to devour this by the jarful.
The Sun
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But the truffle hunter must be quick to fetch the prize before the animals devour it!
The Wine Roads of France
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This beautiful book is a fitting tribute that any film buff will devour.
The Sun
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Shove his face into his own shit, they were learning, and he will devour it, smacking his lips.
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Everyone piles fillings onto their tortillas, folds up and devours.
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The result is we gorge on special diets, feast on miracle fitness plans and devour self-help books.
The Sun
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A violent and what most have described as a cannibalistic impulse seemed to overtake the bodies as they started to attack and devour the living, said a police chief in Miami.
Down the Road
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Devouring fashion has provided a uniquely unimportant and frivolous thing to direct all my worry towards.
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An exotic beauty, with fire at her heart, a flame that could easily devour an unwary man.
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And even if you have the good luck to be healthy, a swarm of locusts could devour your crops, a tsunami could wash away your family, or a hurricane could blow apart your town.
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He devours the berries eagerly, and soils, or "missels" his feet with their viscid seeds, conveying them thus from tree to tree, and getting thence the name of missel thrush.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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The most exotic of all is the rafflesia, a cabbagey survivor of ancient days, which measures up to a metre across and makes its living by devouring insects and small mammals.
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The dogs come and devour the bacon.
Fairy Tales
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The dogs come and devour the bacon.
Fairy Tales
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This theatre of war alone devoured 30,000 Soviet lives.
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Praying mantises, unlike other insects, do not eat plant life; they are the outstanding cannibals of the insect world and devour even members of their own family.
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Stanleywho becomes an instant expert in any subject that concerns him-had already devoured several libraries of science fact and science fiction.
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No one could, and the horrible creature devoured man after man until the city was in a state of siege.
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This beautiful book is a fitting tribute that any film buff will devour.
The Sun
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For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
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A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food per day.
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And the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country, and there were many more of the people whom the forest consumed, than whom the sword devoured that day.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
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Vernon and I were starving, our bodies tense; then relaxing as our tongues swirled around the mozzarella cucina and the hot antipasto, our breathing quickening as we devoured the clams oreganato, stuffed mushrooms, eggplant rollantini, and artichoke hearts.
A Kettle of Vultures
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Of course, we had a scallion-and-seafood pancake, a thick, flavorful eggy crêpe that kids can be counted on to devour in the event that everything else on the menu defies their peanut-butter-dependent palates.
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I've become a glutton for bodybuilding knowledge, devouring whatever books, magazines and research I can find on training, nutrition and volition.
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Ravenous, we devoured our dishes, only pausing to share sighs of contentment as we worked our way around the plate.
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In fairness, I was caught up in this book and wanted to devour it as if I hadn't had anything to read but comic books for a year.
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Melinda, her reliable and religious baby-sitter, of the mousy brown hair and conservative clothing, now of the flower-like lily limbs and void of clothing of any kind, writhing religiously on their beige living-room couch like an octopus, being devoured by her shirtless husband, their faces lifting and meeting, mouths plastering and coming apart, gasps and moans inaudible above the high-powered shouting of the rock stars on the stereo.
For the Sake of the Boy
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The result is we gorge on special diets, feast on miracle fitness plans and devour self-help books.
The Sun
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I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos 4.
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A dark and dirty ebook I devoured all too quickly.
The Sun
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These golden dragon-men overlooked the fact of what we were, supposedly vile, remorseless monsters in league with the Devourer himself.
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Do you really think that before I found you, I was going about the world seeking whom I might devour, that is, be devoured by, in the shape of a wife ... do you suppose I ever dreamed of marrying?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Dad blows out his candles and opens presents and they devour slabs of cake while I sit there feeling wretched.
Times, Sunday Times
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His real name is unpronounceable, androughly translates as “he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it.”
Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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Their laughters are mingled with the roaring sound of the mighty waves, which are much too eager to devour their easy preys.
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It was a faithful likeness of the movie poster for Jurassic Park, with that distinctive script spelling out "When lizards ruled the earth", but instead of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the marauder was a massive fanged gecko looking for something to devour.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE
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As before a dolphin of huge maw fly other fish and fill the nooks of some fair-havened bay, in terror, for he devoureth amain whichsoever of them he may catch; so along the channels of that dread stream the Trojans crouched beneath the precipitous sides.
The Iliad
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But all of the sacred writings say that you will devour the wicked and the unrighteous.
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The idea is to dunk and devour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saul Alinsky learned from that, and strongly advocated giving up the bombs and rhetoric within their revolutionary dreams, instead entering the old form of society like the hagfish to devour it from the inside.
[global governance] gore comes out with his new idea
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Men live like fish, the great ones devour the small.
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With the power out, the only light in the subbasements was cast by the spear points of flame, devouring overturned cars and office debris.
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Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in so doing devour the whole of Europe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done.
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Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old countrymost of them gruesome; children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witchesbut never spoke about the war in my hearing.
Excerpt: City of Thieves by David Benioff
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The word devour had gained a fresh resonance for me.
The Skrayling Tree
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Richard Haryson (1535) was fain to confess, in the deed of surrender, that the monks had, “under the shadow of their rule, vainly detestably, and ungodlily devoured their yearly revenues in continual ingurgitations of their carrion bodies, and in support of their over voluptuous and carnal appetites.” {243b} We cannot but suspect that such language was that of their enemies, put into their mouths, when resistance was no longer possible.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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When I knew him, he spent the day devouring history books.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the age of 18 until he turned 20 and returned to Dornoch as the resident pro, Ross hung on every word that ever came out of Tom's mouth, devouring his thoughts on greenkeeping and clubmaking and the construction of a proper golf course.
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But he was foredoomed, and he went down with the she-wolf tearing savagely at his throat, and with other teeth fixed everywhere upon him, devouring him alive, before ever his last struggles ceased or his last damage had been wrought.
The Battle of the Fangs
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Next morning he finds that the bat is almost dead and is covered with ants which are devouring it.
Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali
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So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books.
The Sun
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Months in the planning, the Gin Flat fire behaved beautifully, devouring a thick carpet of needles and big swaths of brush.
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Some reduction sauce from his noisy devouring of the asado steak sticks to his hoary beard and glistens like a dewdrop.
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I devoured the book quickly, after which there was only one place to put it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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In terms of commercial success, people will devour this bright, clean blues sound.
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As a teenager I avidly devoured stories of hairy bipeds glimpsed through snowstorms, strange cries echoing across glaciers, or enigmatic footprints in the snow.
Getting to Know a Real 'Abominable Snowman'
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A dark and dirty ebook I devoured all too quickly.
The Sun
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Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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He hungrily devoured the chicken in his hands.
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This beautiful book is a fitting tribute that any film buff will devour.
The Sun
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I asked frantically as I stared at the giant flames that were devouring her home.
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Thomas maintained that she did not devour encyclopaedias for breakfast but picked up her knowledge by osmosis.
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Usually the first thing we do with a new batch of stock, is dip in a ladle, as we are in too much of a hurry to even drain it, having been teased and tortured with the redolence of chicken for a couple of hours, pour it into cups that already contain home made noodles and hungrily devour the soup.
At My Table
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Once unleashed by its gloomy keeper Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the squirmy sea monster is ready to devour Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) and destroy the rebellious city of Argos.
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It was only after wasting a year's worth of boarding school education that I made the semiconscious decision to start painting my lungs with powder and devouring my academics.
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Meanwhile crisps, biscuits and other sweet things are devoured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Desperate to purge the aftertaste, I devoured the accompanying capers, but it didn't work.
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“Do you think the next galaxy along will mount a Restoration project for all the species which the Void devourment phase exterminates?”
The Dreaming Void
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It is an enthralling book of revelations that he peels away like the delicate skins of an onion, constantly delighting his readers as they urgently devour its 483 pages.
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As a gawky, squawky teenager with no friends, desperate to distance herself from her parents, she took a part-time job in a library and devoured books, and not just the dirty ones either.
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There are times when children push lovingly prepared food around their plate with a look of undisguised horror on their faces, and there are times when they devour everything you put in front of them and then look put out when there isn't enough for 'fourths'.
Archive 2007-08-01
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But this unhappy lad devoured his patrimony, when he kenned that he was living like a ratten in a Dunlap cheese, and diminishing his means at a’ hands.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Thus cutting the flesh of these animals into convenient pieces, or gobbets, they threw them into the fire and, half carbonadoed or roasted, they devoured them with incredible haste and appetite.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
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Even as she waved for help from the burning aircraft, fire devoured her within seconds.
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When your parcel came to hand we had just devourd a couple of fine Fowles sent us from Stanford
Letter 305
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But instead of dancing around naked and eating questionable vittles around giant stone monoliths, we converge (mostly) clothed upon Water Taxi Beach to celebrate the birthday of one of our own, Citysearch. com food editor, notorious carnivore Feedbag food blogger Josh Ozersky, aka Mr. Cutlets, also known as the devourer of worlds.
25 « August « 2009 « Off The Broiler
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There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year.
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And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, finding, as Aristotle would have said, relief and even comfort in the "purgation" through poetry, of the passions of pity and terror.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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We must admit that there is a certain hipness to planet-eating, especially given Marvel Comics’ philosophical devourer of worlds, Galactus.
Devourer of Worlds or Usurpers of Suns? « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.
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So we need to just accept that and rejoice that youngsters are devouring books.
The Sun
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But now it has gluttonously devoured much of what made the city work
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Master Doctor, seeing himselfe to bee in such an abhominable stinking place, laboured with all his utmost endevour, to get himself released thence: but the more he contended and strove for getting forth, he plunged himselfe the further in, being most pitifully myred from head to foot, sighing and sorrowing extraordinarily, because much of the foule water entred in at his mouth.
The Decameron
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Logan dropped it and pivoted to run, but the devourer surged up to trip him.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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But passivity is not merely the dark haze that devours personality, it is also the last resort open to human beings as they defy an oppressive order by rendering themselves inaccessible to its intentions.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 - Press Release
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As we moreishly devoured grilled tuna marinated in sambal, lemon grass and numerous other exotic spices, I was amazed at how quiet the street was with only the odd person passing by where we sat alfresco.
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Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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The lions devoured a zebra in a short time.
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A savage beast devoured him!
WALKING THE BIBLE
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Journalism had taken form, and the public eagerly devoured newspaper accounts of war, foreign and domestic.
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It creeps in gradually enveloping the earth, devouring the last traces of the struggling dusk.
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She devoured the fashion magazines and seemed to have a natural instinct for spotting a trend before it happened.
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There was never a better citizen, nor more affected to the welfare and quietnesse of his countrie, nor a sharper enemie of the changes, innovations, newfangles, and hurly-burlies of his time: He would more willingly have employed the utmost of his endevours to extinguish and suppresse, than to favour or further them: His minde was modelled to the patterne of other best ages.
Of Friendship.
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I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added
Making Light: Open thread 136
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Nutria, called Myocastor coypus, have added to the destruction by devouring wetlands.
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We stopped at a warung by the side of the road and sipped hot Balinese coffee, heavily sugared as we devoured the massive valleys falling away before us.
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But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms.
The Coming Race
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Then the movie literally stops and begins anew, retelling a mythic tale about a wild beast and the hunter who must kill it or be devoured by it.
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The term consumer makes you into nothing more than a machine that devours goods and services.
Big Greed's Dream
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Even when I cooked dinner, which he'd devour with glee, he would feel no sense of reciprocity.
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Shortly after my skin incident, I found an article about a flesh-eating strep that devours humans in less than 24 hours.
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Dad slept or read books, devouring volumes in a single sitting, as if he were trying to cram in as much information while he still could.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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The children devoured the chocolate cake and ice cream.
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Leaning over, she scatters the remains of the card into the fireplace, watching the flames devour it and leave behind only ashes.
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Remaining undigested by the medusa, the small snail will devour its host from within, growing larger as its host is correspondingly diminished in size.
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In less than half an hour, the flames devoured four buildings.
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Then give yourself permission to stop worrying about things you can't control, so you won't be devoured by fear.
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Some study diuturnity upon two meals a day, or pursue old age by means of "unfired food," Others devour roots by moonlight, or savagely dine upon a pocket of raw beans.
Essays in Rebellion
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The boats were lowered but the harpooner on the boat nearest him was devoured by the Great White Whale.
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She devoured books and pamphlets on rhetoric, art, criminology, theology, psychology, philosophy, the list could go on and on.
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The swelling population of hedgehogs on the Scottish islands of North and South Uist and Benbecula has been devouring birds' eggs and chicks, leading to a big decline in the population of rare waders - like oystercatchers and redshanks.