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Sentences ending with devoured

Hence Mr. Bates inferred that the butterflies which imitate the protected species have acquired their present marvellously deceptive appearance through variation and natural selection, in order to be mistaken for the protected kinds, and thus to escape being devoured. [1]

Short sentences using devoured

Philip was devoured with anxiety. [5]
He devoured the letter. [11]

More example sentences with the word devoured in them

He caught up with her, devoured her with his eyes, and beheld in marriage a delirium. [9]
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and, next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government. [7]
But the feather was stolen from my hat in the tavern, and the landlord devoured onions as if they were white bread. [10]
John Paul devoured these attacks upon his Majesty and his ministry in a single afternoon, and ere long he had on the tip of his tongue the name and value of every man in Parliament and out of it. [9]
Men perished in the scrub, were lost in snow, or were devoured by their companions. [5]
And he avers that one young woman devoured twenty pounds of cherries, beating her opponent by two pounds and a half. [4]
Your wealth is said to be vast, though the foolish war which Antony, with your aid, so greatly prolonged, devoured vast sums. [10]
He was ecstatically proud of his wife, and although he did justice to the cooking, he cared but little for the mysterious courtyards, the Spanish buildings, and the novels of Mr. George W. Cable, which Honora devoured when she was too tired to walk about. [9]
His face was pale, but his eyes, with their swift-shifting lights, lived upon Alixe, devoured her. [11]
There is not one of these smiling ponds which has not devoured more youths and maidens than any of those monsters the ancients used to tell such lies about. [6]
We received it on Ludo's birthday, in September, and how we listened when it was read to us--how often we ourselves devoured its delightful contents! [10]
For instance, many of their friends had been devoured by sharks; the sharks, in their turn, were caught and eaten by other men; later, these men were captured in war, and eaten by the enemy. [5]
They tore the meat from the bones, and the soldier, especially, devoured the costly and unwonted meal like some ravenous animal. [10]
Every night she looked out to see that her signal fire was lit upon the Nez du Guet, and she never went to bed without taking one last look over the sea, in the restless inveterate hope which at once sustained her and devoured her. [11]
Afterwards his body lay exposed till the ravens and vultures devoured it, and at last a great storm swept his bones off into the sea. [11]
And the Lord knows what trash is devoured, from what the booksellers tell me. [9]
The dead lay in heaps about the streets, and wolves entered the city in daylight and devoured them. [5]
A sense of humor not quite extinct made him smile as he devoured pork chops and greasy potatoes and heavy apple pie. [9]
They were in his study, and Lurida had just brought back a thick volume on Insanity, one of Bucknill and Puke's, which she had devoured as if it had been a pamphlet. [6]
He devoured it, his brain reeling. [5]
I eagerly seized his books, first choosing his "Axioms of the Philosophy of the Future," and afterwards devoured everything he had written which the library contained. [10]
I can see him as he sat at the head of the supper table, carving liberal helpings which Mary and Helen and Willie devoured with country appetites, watching our plates. [9]
His look devoured her, her song captured him. [11]
At one time he would be devoured by suspicions, at another he would try to laugh himself out of them. [6]
Not till they had devoured the fuel and merely flickered with a faint bluish light around the charred embers did he fix his eyes on the whirling sparks. [10]
The Colonel reached for the message and devoured its contents: "I said it! [5]
He trudged on foot many miles through the wilderness to borrow an English Grammar, and is said to have devoured greedily the contents of the Statutes of Indiana that fell in his way. [7]
I have said everything to your father that can be urged in your defence, but he is so devoured with rage. [10]
And even after everybody's mind became tranquilized there was still one slight distraction left: the hand that picked up a biscuit carried it to the wrong head, as often as any other way, and the wrong mouth devoured it. [5]
No Ruler is ever slain but the tremendous details of it are ravenously devoured by a hundred thousand men whose minds dwell, unaware, near the temporary-insanity frontier--and over they go, now! [5]
Its appetite was enormous, and it devoured too greedily for health. [6]
The conflict generally ends in one of the combatants losing his tail, which is often devoured by the victor. [1]
If this is eagerly accepted and devoured, the fact of youth is established. [6]
The thought possessed, devoured him for a moment. [11]
The steward looked at the man on his left hand, with puzzled inquiry, but Gabinius heeded him not but went down on his knees again, felt the mosaic over with his hand, and devoured the picture of the marriage of Peleus with his eyes. [10]
Sorrowful reflections and as sorrowful curiosity devoured her. [11]

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