...Almost constantly we observed canoes being punted vigorously close to the surf, in fearless defiance of a catastrophe, such as a capsize and gobbling-up by voracious crocodiles... 
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The food of the elephant is so abundant, that in feedinghe never appears to be impatient or voracious, but rather to playwith the leaves and branches on which he leisurely feeds...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Theseanimals are exceedingly voracious, and sometimes, in their greediness forfood, entangle themselves in fishing lines or nets...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...Although the dog is naturally a voracious animal, he can endure hungerfor a very great length of time, and be brought by habit to subsist ona very scanty meal...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...The body rapidly wastes, though the appetite may return, andeven be voracious...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...But the good, patient little sheep-dog had already placedherself at the grey whelp's voracious disposal, and he was pounding and tuggingaway at her in his usual merciless style...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...This is yet anotherreason why the Sitares should destroy an egg which, were it todevelop, would produce a voracious larva, capable of starving them ina very short time...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...To be sure it was, for as I tell you, they are fierce, savage creatures, and are so voracious that they will eat anything...
George E. Waring 「The Squirrels and other animals」
...The mole hasa most voracious appetite and dies very quicklyif unable to obtain food...
Elizabeth Brightwen 「Wild Nature Won By Kindness」
...Itis a voracious bird and shows great dexterity in the catchingand swallowing of fish, turning them round so as to swallow themhead foremost, in order to avoid the resistance of the fins andspines...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Though voracious in its appetite, it can accommodateitself to circumstances, and can subsist with littlefood, if its abode be damp...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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