...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」
...Only one donkey now remained, and this was carried across by Bombay the next morning, before the voracious monsters were looking out for their breakfasts...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...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」
...It is to the Cetacea what the shark is to fishes—a voracious tyrantwith a capacious mouth, armed with formidable teeth...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Possibly, if it ever hatches the parasiticalegg at all, the voracious young Cow-bird is starved by thedelicate food supplied by its foster-parents...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...This form of indigestion is caused by the animal gorging itself with feed,and arises more from the animal's voracious appetite than from any defect inthe quality of the feed supplied to it...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...But the old birds could not possibly with their utmost exertions feeda brood of their own kind and satisfy the demands made by theappetite of the voracious stranger as well...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...It lays two or sometimes three eggs, and feedsits young, which are very voracious, on birds and the smallerquadrupeds...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...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」
...They feed on insects andslugs for which they have a voracious appetite...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Theyare exceedingly voracious, and prey upon the herrings; CaptainBrown tells a story of a number of mackerel fasteningon to a sailor who had plunged into their midst for a bath...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Theyfeed on herrings, sprats, mollusca, worms, and small shell-fish,are very voracious, and have excellent digestions...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
..." Theeel is voracious, and will leave the water in search of frogs,and other food...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...I have heard and read many tales, illustrating the voracious appetite of pickerel...
Henry Abbott 「Fish Stories」
...The gentle and deer-faced kangaroo belongs to this order; thecurious bandicoots, the tree-frequenting phalangers and petauri, thesavage "native devil," and the voracious subject of this notice...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
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