...In a few minutes the settlers, seatedunder a clump of fine sea-pines, were devouring the provisions which Nebproduced from his bag...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...His first feeling was that of irritation,and he would have stayed the devouring element by the breath of hiscommand; but he soon paused, and yielded to impossibility...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
... Desnoyers saw them lined up near the road devouring hunks of black bread and mouldy sausages...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...One of the equestrians came to a stop near the entrance of the park, the famished horse eagerly devouring the herbage while his rider settled down in the saddle as though asleep...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...All craned theirnecks, devouring the idol with their eyes, but no one heard his speech...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...“You seem to be devouring them with your eyes...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... Mywhole being, I remember, was filled with a devouring passion to be quitof this gully and all that was in it...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...While swarming they appear like snow-flakes floating about in the air, and dogs, cats, hawks, and almost every bird, may be seen busily devouring them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The depredations of these devouring insectswas too soon felt, and a direful scarcityensued...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...Barbarism sprang up again, in a hideous form, from this mass of corruption, and spread like a devouring leprosy over the depopulated provinces...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...The bag insects, in thousands, are devouring the leaves of locustand maple trees...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...In a work on the Insects ofSurinam, published in 1705,she figured the Mygale aricularia, in the act of devouring ahumming-bird...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...A few days after the eggs are laid each hatches into asmall caterpillar that immediately begins feeding uponthe green tissues beside it—first, however, devouring theempty egg shell...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...These eggs hatch into minute slug-like larvae which feedupon the buds, commonly burrowing through the calyxlobes and devouring the undeveloped stamens and pistilsinside...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...The Cow-birds, male and female, destroy many of the eggs in thenests they visit, by pecking holes in the shells, breaking, devouring, andstealing them...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
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