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On the one hand the medium devours eccentrics because viewers find their strangeness exciting.
Sudalai Madan, who devours non-vegetarian food after consuming litres of arrack or toddy has to content himself with the sweet prepared by them.
In short, sin is a great and powerful god who devours the whole human race, all the learned, holy, powerful, wise, and unlearned men.
It is said that it is for youth to fast renew, the memory that time devours.
An omnipotent deity who devours worlds according to Bevinne folklore.
John Polanyi devours philosophy, poetry, and is deeply engaged in the politics of armaments and peace.
Make that your dreams devour your life before that your life devours your dreams.
Over the years, she's learned to read the faces of the many animals as easily as the crime novels that she devours in her free time.
Giving order to the time which devours him: that is the destiny of mortal humans.
The planet becomes money, money becomes number, the number devours time, time devours man, money devours time.
Those who listen to that inner voice, burning and inflexible, will feel within them a fire that devours, which exterminates and purifies.
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.
A man tracks her back to a building where the girl bares her fangs and devours him, reversing the role of predator.
It also destroys cities, devours forests and snuffs out lives.
Everyone piles fillings onto their tortillas, folds up and devours.
He also devours books, getting through six on his last holiday.
One devours a rabbit-like animal as another sits in deep contemplation.
He greedily devours all information on anything to do with art and observes every detail in the art work of his contemporaries.
But instead of waiting to be fed, a larva devours the second egg that her mother laid.
Her older son, who is five, devours maths apps and asks his mother questions about arithmetic.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Each in its place is seen to be good and worthy, but when each devours the other both are accurst.
In general, the predator is bulkier than his prey, since he overcomes him and devours him.
The Whiting gloats, devours, crams itself so with Herring that it becomes one luscious mass of fat.
He grinds, cranches, and devours whole multitudes, without being satisfied.
The horse mackerel is found principally in the same parts, where it devours the fry of other fishes.
Little by little it slips in between the mollusc and its house, and devours it entirely.
It also devours dead fishes, bones and all, and in return is swallowed whole by the wolffish and other large fishes.
Although the alg are useful guests, when they become too numerous the protozoan devours them.
It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.
Is it not enough that I am devoured, without my being expected to bless the power that devours me?
The most terrible, Polyphemus, devours several of Odysseus' companions.
Little by little, the tide of houses, always thrust from the heart of the city outwards, overflows, devours, wears away, and effaces this wall.
A flight of this kind, like an Egyptian flight of locusts, devours everything that serves for its food as it passes along.
The printed book, the gnawing worm of the edifice, sucks and devours it.
The lyrical bacillus gluttonously devours everything it encounters.
That lady is more mighty than dainty, she is no way squeamish, she devours all and is ready for all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages, and ranks.
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