He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
I smiled back at her and we talked until the oven beeped, telling us that the chicken was ready to be devoured.
Through bleary eyes, they watched in horror as a blaze devoured the house of one of their best-loved families.
He devoured ideas with an insatiable curiosity and then pursued them with unbounded energy and infectious enthusiasm.
The berries hang on into early spring unless devoured by songbirds, bobwhite, deer, squirrels, or wild turkey.
Even as she waved for help from the burning aircraft, fire devoured her within seconds.
The juices of the soft fruit were already running down Juktis's arms as she devoured the new sweet delicacy.
Puddings are devoured amid a flurry of spoons darting back and forth across the table.
It's completely delicious, and is usually enthusiastically devoured by both vegetarians and carnivores alike.
In practice, their lives are devoured by activities and strangled with attachments.
Before dinner was even served, we had devoured a basket of chewy bread and a bottle of unlabeled wine.
Think of Cinderella's coach turning into a pumpkin, and the Grimms' tale of Hansel and Gretel about to be devoured by a witch.
Mitch emphasized each their, adding his own secret meaning while the shots devoured this pigpen melee of design.
She devoured the fashion magazines and seemed to have a natural instinct for spotting a trend before it happened.
Ravenous, we devoured our dishes, only pausing to share sighs of contentment as we worked our way around the plate.
It was a bit like the currants and raisins in one of those plum duffs devoured around this time.
Opposite me, a porky man devoured his three double cheeseburgers in a panic.
The cows also devoured native grasses, transforming the landscape to little more than lumps of cow pies and sparse vegetation.
She devoured books and pamphlets on rhetoric, art, criminology, theology, psychology, philosophy, the list could go on and on.
Our little table devoured a bowl of crispy fried clams so quickly we had to order another.
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The huntsman relents out of pity but also cynically reminds himself that Snow White will probably be devoured by wild animals anyway.
I simply devoured books and a lot of my vocabulary and general knowledge comes from those books.
None of the children wanted the chocolates and all quickly devoured the jellied candy.
She hit the Platters rocks, close to the shore just west of the suspension bridge, and a fire devoured what remained above the water.
He stood unmoving, watching the parchment crackle, seeing the last of his life's work devoured by flames, and felt nothing.
Flames roared as they devoured the city and all of the people living within it.
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.
He took one last long look at the woman he had once loved and watched stoically as she was devoured by hungry tongues of flame.
Jada tossed the half smoked cigarette onto the ground, and the hungry dust devoured it.
He read Aristotle, Plato, Marx and Lenin and devoured both great European novels and contemporary pulp fiction in binges of late-night reading.
Journalism had taken form, and the public eagerly devoured newspaper accounts of war, foreign and domestic.
I devoured this book guiltily one weekend when I was a rather rude houseguest.
The semi-annual issuance of the INFORMANT was eagerly awaited, and serious players literally devoured its contents from cover to cover.
People who in other countries would read light novels and popular magazines devoured works on art, science, history, and above all philosophy.
Then give yourself permission to stop worrying about things you can't control, so you won't be devoured by fear.
There were only three people, but we devoured the stuffed eggplant, and even had room for dessert.
One day the brothers who had been driven out came together, killed and devoured their father and so made an end of the patriarchal horde.
I devoured the sandwich in a minute and Tyler handed me a bottle of water, which I downed in a couple of seconds.
Huge eddies pulled the waves into massive waterspouts that devoured the flotsam and survivors on the river.
Afterwards, a hearty lunch was devoured by the group of children, whose happy faces glowed with joy.
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Desperate to purge the aftertaste, I devoured the accompanying capers, but it didn't work.
We kibitzed about the game on Friday as he handed me a large piece of pumpkin pie that I devoured instantly.
But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
After the six of them had devoured the pancakes and eggs, they cleaned up the kitchen, rinsing the dishes and loading the dishwasher.
He helped himself to a slice of bread and cheese and devoured the food hungrily.
Within the next hour the five course banquet was devoured by all students hungrily.
If the South seceded, the European superpowers would have cooked, carved and devoured the weakened American eagle.
Certain plants have developed thorns to prevent themselves from being devoured and they work equally well as deterrents for humans too.
I mixed and matched and came up with something my meat eating family devoured.
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.
This refers to an episode that took place during the Parnell Commission when the politician claimed that mice got into his portmanteau and devoured some important documents.
Once I was camping in Canada during mid-summer, and the horseflies were so big that they devoured my traveling companion while he was taking a nap.
Wheat that is resistant to the scab fungus in Europe and America is devoured by scab in Asia, where wetter climates make life harder for the wheat and easier for scab.
I hungrily devoured this wild conspiratorial narrative, eager to be a young Jedi in the rebellion against the evolutionary Empire.
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.
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.
As a child, I hungrily devoured the literature and legends of big cities.
I devoured the two issues, and my husband read them as well.
You just devoured half my corn dog and now you're after even more food!
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Our finest gritstone architecture is being devoured by road salt.
The beggar-woman immediately peeled and devoured her paramour's gift.
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.
The piece of pita bread lay untouched as we devoured the food.
And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
The violence that has devoured parts of Bangladesh over the last week was not a spontaneous outburst by disgruntled democrats.
She cheerfully cooked up some Welsh cakes, from a recipe handed down by her grandmother, that the other hosts devoured.
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.
Outside parliament, anyone who challenged the clamour for partition was devoured by the mobs.
The coffee cream puff devoured by mum also got the thumbs-up.
In less than half an hour, the flames devoured four buildings.
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.
After surviving on a 1950s diet including kippers and Spam, the lads devoured the WI's homemade cakes, sandwiches, scones, sausage rolls and quiche.
We had an extremely nutritious soup and salad, and I gratefully devoured sliced and peculiarly tasty turnip greens with green kale, onions, tomatoes, and peppers.
Mongrelization under the cover of school integration is the monstrous wolf that seeks entrance into the fold where it would not stop until it had devoured the whole flock.
As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
The fears of terrorism received an extra boost from the disruption of communications and news as facilities were devoured by the fire.
The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self.
He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute.
When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.
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The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
During the Florida recount, there was a familiar ring to news about manhandled punchcards and devoured chads.
Last year, the towhees built their nest in the clematis vine, and one night a raccoon found it and devoured the nestlings.
Faux Gras is bound to get devoured at your next party when paired with crudites, baguette slices, or crackers.
Nacho-fueled Super Bowl bashes and multicourse wedding banquets may hark back to a time when preagricultural people devoured wild animal meat at their comrades' gravesides.
She pulled his body to hers and devoured his lips, his neck, the gauntness of his being, as if time was going too fast and the world's end was in sight.
Offer a bulky and boggy bun to the suspected individual just ten minutes before dinner. If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established.
The healthy pile of surf and turf, with potato cubes, pickled vegetables and pepper sauce was fantastic and bursting with flavours, and was progressively devoured by Hayley.

If he did not fall a prey to his pack of hounds, we may however fay that he was devoured by his favourites, who mifled his youth and his great foul.
The eggs which have been incubated to an advanced degree are as eagerly devoured as those quite fresh.
Anaheim looked upon them, devoured them with its eyes, was proud of them, and loved them.
For one night the monster devoured out of the village of anis six hens, a sheep, and a young orphan child called little Elo.
Mr. Sanderson mentions an instance when a barking deer he shot was partially devoured by a bear during the night.
On their return to the palace, they told the king that their sister had been devoured by a fallow deer.
On the crab being devoured by the right species of cephalopod, the merozoites doubtless give rise to the sexual generation again.
In some cases the pupa was being devoured by the minute larv of a chalcid fly, and in one cell only the dried skin remained.
The Chukchi burn their dead or expose them on platforms to be devoured by ravens.
It was devoured to the rind, after which the convives reclined luxuriously upon a mound of excelsior beside an empty crate.
I found breakfast ready, consisting of coffee, corn cake and fresh mutton, which I devoured with a keen appetite.
It were better for me to have been devoured by the dragon, as my poor companions were.
The dogs had devoured even the entrails of the seal, and began to gnaw their traces.
No doubt they would have flayed me alive, have sold my skin, and devoured, etc.
Emma devoured them, gluttonously and absorbed their precepts as the human system absorbs alcohol fumes.
Nothing was heard but an occasional graunch, graunch, as he devoured the end of his pen.
This time the flesh had not been devoured, but the poor beasts had, in every case, been speared.
Her also next, Hovering and clamoring, he by the wing Within his spiry folds drew, and devoured.
But in the library he found the works of St. Augustine and these he devoured.
In 1818 the crops of the settlers were devoured by an incursion of locusts.
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He was devoured by the birds of prey ere he could be removed for interment.
First one tentacle, then another, and finally one is pulled under and devoured.
My Annerle cried out in her sleep last night that she was being devoured, and little Kasper woke up and cried too.
Macaulay was then new, and I devoured not only his works, but a vast amount by him suggested.
First, when the moon is occulted by the earth it is believed to be devoured by some evil demon, or by wolves or dogs.
In its youth the Parmesan is very soft and easy, and is voraciously devoured.
He devoured her with his eyes, sighed, and wearied her with prayers and reproaches.
It was tantamount to an expressed imprecation, that the thief might be devoured by the white shark the next time he went to fish.
He seemed half famished, and devoured some slices of excellent ham, which I had put in my guide's knapsack, wolfishly.
The meat he tore apart and devoured ravenously, cramming it wolfishly into his mouth as fast as he could.
Now the woman wanted to call for help, but the panther seized and devoured her.
But she was all eyes for the girl, who in turn devoured this model Parisienne.
Suddenly six of the poh came and killed and devoured them as a reward for his good rule.
Adams was a quintessence of Boston, devoured by curiosity to think like Benvenuto.
In the Shah-Name the sun disappears, devoured by a sea-monster or crocodile.
Attorneys all as keen and staunch As e'er devoured a client's haunch.
The waters, the land, the air teem with it, and always it is being devoured by some other form of life.
By and by he found a comfortable spot, and there he devoured his meal, slaking his thirst at the stream.
All the remainder was left to putrefy, or be devoured by wild beasts.
She's very young, but she's already devoured with hypercriticism.
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These are devoured by the nuthatches, creepers, and chickadees.
But all of them that were destructible had been devoured by hungry flames.
It was slaughtered, roasted, made into mincemeat and devoured.
Millions of their eggs are devoured by turtles, frogs, pickerel, and eels.
And I still had a sweet tooth, and on privy occasions when there was no man to see, bought candy and blissfully devoured it.
Our lodging was either in the rocks or on the sands, and even that incommoded by continual apprehensions of being devoured by lions and tigers.
The foretopman had been torn limb from limb and instantly devoured.
The wasp, in trembling, ghoulish ecstasy, devoured it as it appeared.
Is it not enough that I am devoured, without my being expected to bless the power that devours me?
He had often heard that shipwrecked persons had died through having eagerly devoured too much food.
Colin held out his hand with a sort of flushed royal shyness but his eyes quite devoured her face.
For two years he devoured an incalculable number of volumes.
He was instantly flayed and cut up, and so ravenous was their hunger, that they devoured some of the flesh raw.
Each shrimp, sensibly butterflied, could be plucked from the top of the griddle, immediately devoured enjoyably hot, smoky and crunchy.
He invested a nickel in peanuts, and the pair devoured them ravenously.
They declared that Rhiannon had devoured the child, her own baby.
I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness.
But I do know that I was fortunate in not being devoured during the several hours I was knotted up on the ground with the colic.
Steve devoured the last of his apple and started on the peanuts.
And yet he could have devoured the beautiful Magdalene with his eyes.
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But he had devoured countless pictures of them, and now he was ravenous to feast his eyes upon the king of beasts in the flesh.
The girl emptied the stiffened mould into my hand, and I devoured it ravenously.
The carcass was immediately cut up, and a part of it hastily cooked and ravenously devoured.
After nine months of connubial bliss his consort had devoured him!
The wolves caught on them at last and they devoured Sol and Mani.
The old maids, in particular, of forty years and upward, and dry in proportion, devoured his photographs day and night.
So Ulysses followed her into the oval saloon, where his two and twenty comrades had devoured the banquet, which ended so disastrously for themselves.
In this way, the goods he had brought to trade for beaver skins, were likely to be bartered for horseflesh, and all the proceeds devoured upon the spot.
Here is neither boat nor bridge, and the river is so full of hippopotami, or river-horses, and crocodiles, that it is impossible to swim over without danger of being devoured.
Beetles, rodents and caterpillars were devoured with seeming relish.
Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with an irresistible force, at the last moment?
My dismay was great, for it seemed to me that to be buried alive was even a worse fate than to be devoured by cannibals, nevertheless there was no escape.
When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, and the last allowance of corn pone devoured, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment.
At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust.
I quickly heated a bowlful with some rice and devoured it in seconds.
If the millionaire had been let alone he would have devoured the tiger.
The ordinary dose is six of these rinds, and I had devoured twenty.

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