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  • Fans had been hungrily awaiting the final instalment.
  • Elise looked hungrily over the various dishes: Soup with soft dumplings, crunchy Yugandian rice with chunks of fruit, tikmollusks in sauce - ugh!
  • They dug into the pizza hungrily.
  • The plot hungrily steals plot points from a hodgepodge of other, better movies.
  • She tore open the envelope, unfolding the two page letter, and hungrily read every line of her son's missive.
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  • Few know of the horror lurking behind closed doors: flesh-eating bugs hungrily devouring decaying flesh straight from carcasses.
  • The flames ate hungrily, and erupted into strange hues of purples and blues.
  • Smoke rose from pits at one side of the house, and the smell of roasting meat made Abasio salivate hungrily. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Sitting hungrily nearby, a being with the head of a crocodile and the body of a lion sat waiting. Crossed
  • We all grew quiet as we hungrily ate, because the food was so good.
  • Along the hulls of lean privateers rows of gun-ports stared hungrily at rotund merchantmen, and here and there the dark even lines of a heavy warship loured over lesser craft with masterful menace. The Gates of Noon
  • I lay on the rooftop eating a sandwich hungrily and washing it down with a swig of whiskey.
  • I had to find it out -- slowly, hungrily, painfully, strivingly, because I've always been such a fool. Captivity
  • He helped himself to a slice of bread and cheese and devoured the food hungrily.
  • He slid the door open and watched as the cat scampered out to sit between posts and watch the birds hungrily.
  • The dunderheads etc wander in and out picking hungrily at the remains of a beetroot salad.
  • Smoke rose from pits at one side of the house, and the smell of roasting meat made Abasio salivate hungrily. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The vultures were all perched upon tree roots, all looking hungrily at the same place.
  • As it touched the bolt of magic, the sword hummed hungrily. Searching for dragons
  • The actress hungrily consumed a plate of cupcakes baked by her roommate.
  • Her laugh no longer flashed out so hungrily and her eyes, brimming with the secret he and she had made, deepened and seemed to rejoin the girlishness that had lingered in the other features of her face. Updike, John
  • A long, dark, undulous furrow came moving along the waters, nearer and nearer, till the vast head of the reptile emerged -- its jaws bristling with fangs, and its dull eyes fixing themselves hungrily on the spot where I sat motionless. The Coming Race
  • All fearless in her virgin purity, she listened neither to the Goblins who eyed her hungrily from the shapeless trees and besought her to show them favour, nor to the warnings of compassionate Fays who bade her return to the Crystal Tower. The Fairies and the Christmas Child
  • However, a poet who is not ambition and does not steep himself/herself in hungrily learning as much poetry as possible will display a less interesting approach to writing. Five ways to judge a Poem’s Merit
  • The global coltan price has collapsed, so now they focus hungrily on cassiterite, which is used to make tin cans and other consumer disposables. Information Liberation
  • Smoke rose from pits at one side of the house, and the smell of roasting meat made Abasio salivate hungrily. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • The comfort of the place, by contrast with our situation, seemed, as I looked hungrily on it through the thick glass of the lozen, more great and tempting than anything ever I saw abroad in the domains of princes. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
  • The men had laid down tools and were sitting hungrily eating the bowls of broth that he was ladling for them.
  • See, cheese and pickle sandwiches were my staple diet the summer I worked in Barnaby's toyshop, and hungrily read Women in Love, The Virgin and the Gypsy and The Rainbow in quick succesion during my all too short lunch breaks. Archive 2005-09-01
  • Soon we served up steaming helpings of scalloped potatoes, chicken breasts and gravy onto our plates, and ate hungrily.
  • As a child, I hungrily devoured the literature and legends of big cities.
  • People were tucking in hungrily and chatting elatedly. ‘I'm a bit out of place here’ thought Jessica.
  • His eyesight (now back and glitch-less) roved hungrily around the room.
  • In the second video, EAT, my mouth watered as plates of ceviche, pasta and crème brûlée were plunked onto the travelers' dining table or crickets—yep, crickets—chili dogs and popcorn-coated candy apples were hungrily shoved down their handsome gullets. Christine Negroni: What We Lose When Travel Becomes A Highlight Reel
  • Any free time he did have, he spent in the extensive library, hungrily devouring book after book.
  • Saskia was active and roamed around her cot, lively and feeding hungrily, while Helena was meek, quiet and still.
  • Her fresh young lips closed hungrily around the stiff pole of his organ.
  • The dunderheads etc wander in and out picking hungrily at the remains of a beetroot salad.
  • he pounced on the food hungrily
  • She needed only to get a few yards out before being able to see the flames hungrily devour her house.
  • The young birds' breasts showed orange now as they looked hungrily to her, their eyes black and empty.
  • The young cubs hungrily devoured the deer.
  • As we settled down to supper, devouring the food hungrily, the front door slammed open.
  • Local people wait hungrily for news of future developments.
  • The more daring divers can approach the screen that separates the pools, and poke small baitfish through holes to the dozen nurse sharks waiting hungrily on the other side.
  • Within the next hour the five course banquet was devoured by all students hungrily.
  • When Snow White's beauty wins the heart of the prince that the Queen desperately pursues, the Queen banishes her to the forest, where a ravening man-eating beast hungrily awaits.
  • She hungrily ate a slice of bread.
  • I forked up some pasta and chomped on it hungrily.
  • He hungrily devoured the chicken in his hands.
  • The big naval guns, brought from the empty ships in the basin, were mounted en barbette, meaning there were not enough embrasures to protect them so the weapons were firing directly over the wall's parapet and British gunner officers hungrily watched those pieces through their telescopes. Sharpe's Prey
  • The man looks at her hungrily, then he takes the candle from her and pushes it into the candleholder. AMERICAN GODS
  • Close by, a low fire burned, its flames licking hungrily at embers.
  • Close by, a low fire burned, its flames licking hungrily at embers.
  • Milwaukee's zoo was also on the edge of the city (since most people don't like hearing lions and wolves calling hungrily at night), but it was the western edge and Milwaukee is taller than it is wide, if you see what I mean. Trinityboy Diary Entry
  • Her stomach grumbled as she hungrily eyed the sausages sputtering on the blackened grill.
  • When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress.
  • As soon as they were seated in his car, they kissed, hungrily. Fall
  • She took the necklace in her hand and stared hungrily at the diamonds, rubies, and onyx stones.
  • Insectivora shrugged and scooped it up, bringing it hungrily toward her mouth. Lynn Harris: HuffPost Exclusive! Excerpt: Death By Chick Lit
  • They gazed hungrily at the display of food.
  • "The piracy universe hungrily consumes increasing amounts of bandwidth," the report read.
  • His eye/gaze roved hungrily about the room.
  • He pronounced them fit for consumption, upon which we all fell to them hungrily.
  • Rosa hungrily eyeing the bag of sour cream and onion flavored chips I had brought with my sandwiches.
  • As soon as the food arrived he dug in hungrily.
  • Divya Sreedharan asks BDA commissioner M.N.Vidyashankar why they are nibbling hungrily at the green space in the guise of urbanisation.
  • She was hungrily eyeing her bacon cheeseburger as the plate was being put down before her.
  • His eye/gaze roved hungrily about the room.
  • He caught her in his arms, hungrily, and kissed her abandonedly. Phantom Wires A Novel
  • And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. Through Russia
  • Once separated, I sat and hungrily ate her delicious breakfast.
  • Something dangerous-sounding padded on soft feet into the warehouse and prowled around outside her field of vision, panting hungrily.
  • Rani's eyes hungrily took in the familiar high forehead, the curved nose, the pointed chin, the long, elegant neck.
  • This was Scotland's night, the game effectively won at half-time and the second period a succession of opportunities hungrily snatched.
  • As soon as dinner was served,we dug into it hungrily.
  • So, in search of new thrills, we are hungrily opting for downscale pleasures.
  • April 27th, 2009 old crow watching hungrily from his perch in yonder tree Old crow watching hungrily from his perch in yonder tree
  • By the 13th century, he was hungrily eyeing all the land to the south of him.
  • The waters swallowed the coin hungrily as we looked on. THE RICH RIVER
  • I unwrapped the tin foil from the sandwich as Zephyr glared hungrily at it.
  • Finally, after four days of movement, Buck grows tired of the chase and drags the moose to the ground, finishing him off and devouring his meat hungrily.
  • Talking freely, talking rapidly, talking hungrily, talking my imbecilic 'flu-ridden head off. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • Dance and theater groups are eyeing the downtown cultural spaces hungrily.
  • Researchers have hope for tiny parasitic wasps from Asia, which scientists are studying to see if they can be hungrily effective if introduced in the U.S. The wasps lay their eggs within the stink bugs' own egg masses. Out of Odor: Offensive-Smelling Bugs Put U.S. Farmers on the Defensive
  • She was hungrily eating the stew.
  • I thanked him and took one of the warm, freshly baked brownies and ate it hungrily.
  • She hungrily ate a slice of bread.
  • As soon as the food arrived he dug in hungrily.
  • The tall green grass is waving in the fields as the wind goes over, and there is a fragrance of whiteweed and ripe strawberries and clover blowing through the sunshiny barns, with their lean sides and their festoons of brown, dusty cobwebs; dull, comfortable creatures they appear to imaginative eyes, waiting hungrily for their yearly meal. The White Rose Road
  • I indicate the man-mountain and he grins hungrily. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can watch them learning these little things, hungrily acquiring the actions and phrases that will identify them—if only to one another—as cooks. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
  • But sooner or later the wolves will be hungrily roaming the forest and if they step into the forest of reality on their way to their version of the New World Order both are going to get more than fleeced. Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties?
  • 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
  • The dunderheads etc wander in and out picking hungrily at the remains of a beetroot salad.

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