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- Can't you get your friends to unite with you in committing those odious instruments of debauchery to the flames in which you have consumed your own? [6]
- Thus the summer was consumed, and nothing had been accomplished except Smith's discovery. [4]
- She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
- The farm continued under the expert direction of a superintendent who was a graduate of the State Agricultural College, and a select clientele, which could afford to pay the prices, consumed the milk and cream and butter. [9]
- He lost a trunk in Switzerland, and consumed a whole day in looking it up. [4]
- Tavernier, the French traveler (17th century), notes that Ganges water is often given at weddings, "each guest receiving a cup or two, according to the liberality of the host; sometimes 2,000 or 3,000 rupees' worth of it is consumed at a wedding. [5]
- Then she went to Grady's Quick Lunch Counter and ordered a sandwich and a glass of milk, which she consumed slowly, profoundly sunk in thought. [9]
- Most of the time was consumed by the suffering maestro and the arrangements which she had to make for him. [10]
- At the same time he was consumed by a violent thirst, for neither food nor drink had touched his lips for the same length of time. [10]
- The famous Globe Theatre, which was built in 1599, was burned in 1613, and in the fire it is supposed were consumed Shakespeare's manuscripts of his plays. [4]
- Without counting them, the twenty-six letters of our alphabet consumed about eighty pen-strokes for their construction--about three pen-strokes per letter. [5]
- It began because the Kynopolitans eat the fish, and in revenge the Oxyrynchites caught and killed dogs, and consumed them in sacrifices. [10]
- How much had the flames consumed that never could be replaced! [10]
- Such products of the country as are to be consumed where they are produced need no roads or rivers, no means of transportation, and have no very proper connection with this subject. [7]
- Upon examination of the corn stored in casks, it was found half-rotten, and the rest consumed by rats, which had bred in thousands from the few which came over in the ships. [4]
- Almost colorless in the ardent daylight, they greedily consumed everything they approached, and white ashes marked their track. [10]
- Ten years before, the ancient temple had been consumed by fire; and at this time efforts were being made to build another, and a more beautiful one. [10]
- It was said that the man's death-grip still held fast to the bars after he was dead; and that in this position the fires wrapped him about and consumed him. [5]
- Its preparation and that of more minute plots of the new city consumed the valuable time of Sellers and Harry for many weeks, and served to keep them both in the highest spirits. [5]
- A longer time than I knew was consumed in this and repeated efforts to wait for the slackening and renewing storm to pass away. [4]
- Ditmar demanded a table in the corner, and consumed a solitary meal. [9]
- How many a song their discord trills Of "truck" consumed, enjoyed, forgot, Since I was skinned by last year's lot! [5]
- But she only smiled and said, "My pulse has long ceased to beat, my spirit has departed; I shall suffer nothing in the burning; and if you wish proof, order some fire and you shall see this arm consumed without giving me any pain. [5]
- What should we say of men if they consumed half their time in paying formal calls upon each other merely for the sake of paying calls, and were low-spirited if they did not receive as many cards as they had dealt out to society? [4]
- A longing for retaliation consumed her; she wished to hurt him before she left. [9]
- It was not possible to climb out of the gorge; it was impossible to find a way by the side of the river; and getting down the bed, over the falls, and through the flumes, was not easy, and consumed time. [4]
- So the poor old Woodlouse retreated out of sight, consumed with shame. [5]
- But the change of dress, the waiting, and the numerous questions asked by the Burgravine had consumed so much time that the poplars were already casting long shadows when she dismounted before the hospital. [10]
- But she must not indulge in premature rejoicing, for the messengers had found him ill, consumed by disease arising from his wounded lungs, and almost at death's door. [10]
- He had paid no heed to his dress since the morning of the previous day, and as he always consumed large quantities of food and drink he felt the need of refreshment. [10]
- And which is most in earnest in his pursuit of the fair one: He who lies sleeping in her arms, or he who is consumed by his passion for her? [10]
- The warm, human love with which he devoted himself to the care of souls in his great parish consumed the lion's share of his time and strength. [10]
- The burning heat it diffused seemed to have consumed its rays, which to-day were invisible. [10]
- The clouds which intrude upon her pathway of radiance are consumed and disappear. [10]
- Probably the distance I traveled was short, and the time consumed not long; but I seemed to be adding mile to mile, and hour to hour. [4]
- Both he and his worthy wife sometimes sought her in the sphere of occupation which consumed the lion's share of her time and strength--the superintendence of the Schweinau hospital. [10]
- If he consumed his own fields and vineyards, that was a pity, yes; but he would have his eruption at any cost. [5]
- This one opened his head wide and laughed like a demon; or like a maniac who was consumed with humorous scorn over a cheap and degraded pun. [5]
- But "when Jehudi had read three or four leaves he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. [6]
- So the property had been consumed, and the Lady Wendula and her son and three daughters were left in moderate circumstances. [10]
- All that host had been consumed with curiosity to see what Joan would do. [5]
- He longed to give to the woman he loved again and again, and it would have seemed to him a favour of fortune if the flames had consumed even the last drachm of her wealthy father. [10]
- I breathed more freely, as if relieved from the oppressive delusion--the fire had consumed it also--which had burdened my soul until a few hours ago. [10]
- When the last fragment was consumed to ashes I uttered a sigh of relief. [10]
- But a sudden flame of anger consumed her. [11]
- Her passion, like fire at white heat, consumed itself in little time. [13]
- There was no fear in the little fellow's look, however; he had something of the same self-possession as the woman, and his eyes were like hers, clear, unwavering, and with a frankness that consumed you. [11]
- Since, for two entire years, piracy had entirely ceased in this neighbourhood, no one thought of corsairs, and the bodies of the incendiaries having been consumed by the flames with the white house, it could not be ascertained to what class the marauders belonged. [10]
- Everything fit to drink which had been brought with them had been consumed at Dophkah, and the exhausted spring at the mines had afforded no water to fill the skins. [10]
- In those old days, to load a steamboat at St. Louis, take her to New Orleans and back, and discharge cargo, consumed about twenty-five days, on an average. [5]
- Most of the contributions came from a distance; even the articles written in New York reached him through the post, and so far from having his valuable time, as they called it, consumed in interviews with his collaborators, he rarely saw any of them. [8]
- But it was consumed with the rest of his property--tools, clothing, mementoes of his dead parents, and a few books which contained his favourite poems and the writings of his master, Straton. [10]
- Wood enough is consumed in that morning sacrifice to cook the food of a Parisian family for a year. [4]
- With a powerful constitution, he had kept his general health fairly, though strange fits of depression had consumed him of late, and the old strong spring and resilience seemed going, if not gone, from his mind and body. [11]
- If no relief comes and the provisions are consumed, we shall be forced to open the gates to the enemy, and then, Maria, imagine what will happen! [10]
- And must my body, that has never been defiled, be consumed today and turned to ashes? [5]
- It must have been a small bottle to be consumed by him in a week, or perhaps he had able assistance. [5]
- I had once been a grocery clerk, for one day, but had consumed so much sugar in that time that I was relieved from further duty by the proprietor; said he wanted me outside, so that he could have my custom. [5]
- Denied its food at home, good food, my soul eagerly consumed and made part of itself the fermenting stuff that Alec Pound so willing distributed. [9]
- Hugo, consumed with anger and shame, sprang up, seized a cudgel, and came at his small adversary in a fury. [5]
- She did not analyze her feeling for Austen, but she was consumed with a fierce desire that justice should be done him. [9]
- Anxiety for me, a miserable wretch, had consumed her, said the physician--that was the hardest thing to bear. [10]
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