... 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」
...The prisoner eagerly seized the portrait, and gazed at it with devouring eyes...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...She saw that the lion had killed the ape, and that he was devouring hisprey less than fifty feet from where she lay; but what could she do?Her hands and feet were bound...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...The commandant of the village having slaughtered a cow, slaves were obliged to sit up the whole night, burning fires of straw around the meat, to prevent them from devouring most of it...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...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」
...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」
...The corn was in ear, andtherefore safe, as this devouring insect attacksno hard substance...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of 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」
...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」
...Having emptied our baskets, we advanced about three miles along the beach—still with the slugs of the enemy whistling in our ears—and gave to the devouring element another town...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
... Instead of leaping out and devouring me, he scarcely seemed conscious of my presence...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...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」
...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」
...This is the species which he noticed devouring blisteringbeetles with impunity...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The tiger came during the night and tookaway the leg, without touching the calf; and, devouring it, fellasleep, in which condition we, having tracked him up the nullah,found and killed him...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and 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」
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