例文・使い方で印象づける「devouring」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... And the woman looked with astonishment at the millionaire devouring a bit of bread and a triangle of cheese, the only food that she could find in her humble dwelling... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Of these two I made my whole diet, devouring them cold and raw as I found them; and so hungry was I, that at first they seemed to me delicious...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...In proportion as the tale advanced, the king became agitated, devouring the narrator’s words, and drumming with his finger-nails upon the table...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Werper and Tarzan sat devouring some pieces of meat they had broughtfrom their last camp...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
... I caught hiseye fixed on the rubies, and in it I read only a devouring greed...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... 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」
...Fortunately for them, a victim had already been secured, and the bruteswere too busy devouring him to pay attention to anything else...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
..."I want to lead the Great Master to two lions,"he said; "they have just killed a zebra and are now devouring it...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...Hastily devouring a morsel of corn-bread with coffee, I hastened away, with Bilali for a gunbearer, taking with me the famous Reilly rifle of the Doctor and a supply of Fraser's shells...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...On the following day they very unexpectedly fell in with a party of nine of the Bushmen, who were very busy devouring a quagga, which they had killed...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Cats are the principal nuisance and the thievesof the place—attacking and devouring fowls...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...It is generally believed inCeylon that, in the case of larger animals, the crocodile abstainsfrom devouring them till the commencement of decompositionfacilitates the operation of swallowing...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...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」
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