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Short sentences using devouring
- The monster is devouring me. [10]
More example sentences with the word devouring in them
- They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
- We all know what the war fever is in our young men,--what a devouring passion it becomes in those whom it assails. [6]
- A smile played upon her lips as she perceived young Hermas, who had already been for some time leaning motionless against the wall of the house opposite, and devouring with his gaze the figure of the beautiful young woman. [10]
- He had read two letters addressed to Carmen by the man--Hugo Stolphe--who had left her to her fate; and there was a grim devouring thing in him which would break loose, if ever the man crossed his path. [11]
- A telegram carried the news to Virginia, and fifteen minutes afterward that city's population was massed in the streets devouring the tidings--for it was part of the programme that the bulletin boards should do a good work that day. [5]
- I was devouring the crowned personage with all my eyes, and my heart almost stood still with awe. [5]
- A pig missing; supposed to have "fallen a prey to the devouring element. [6]
- They could not remember when the devouring of a meal had afforded them such rapture --that was their word. [5]
- They have been peopled in earlier years with ghastly spectres of avenging fiends, moving in a sleepless world of devouring flames and smothering exhalations; where nothing lives but the sinner, the fiends, and the reptiles who help to make life an unending torture. [6]
- The thing raised itself and sprang towards hers with a devouring cry. [11]
- From the Chaussey Isles the filibuster saw the signal light which the traitor Olivier Delagarde had set upon the heights of Le Couperon, where, ages ago, Caesar built fires to summon from Gaul his devouring legions. [11]
- Isaac D. Worthington, indeed, might by a stretch of the imagination be called the pioneer of all the genus to be known in the future as City Folks, who were, two generations later, to invade the country like a devouring army of locusts. [9]
- Everything gave way in his mind instantly to one desire: that was to get close to the prince, and have a good, devouring look at him. [5]
- Imagine the devouring eagerness with which I pored over those mazy red spirals, with that document by my side which bore the right-hand thumb-and-finger- marks of that unknown murderer, printed with the dearest blood--to me-- that was ever shed on this earth! [5]
- What he could do in his own suffering you must learn to do for others on whose vital organs disease has fastened its devouring teeth. [3]
- The rats were devouring the house, but instead of examining the cat's teeth and claws, they only concerned themselves to find out if it was a holy cat. [5]
- While engaged in contending with the priests, thou hast seen with calmness the young might of Persia roll on from the East, consuming the nations on its way, and, like a devouring monster, growing more and more formidable from every fresh prey. [10]
- But in the coming spring the French conscripts filled our sacred land like a swarm of locusts, devouring as they went. [9]
- The vast steam-threshers are mightily devouring what their servants, the monster steam-reapers, have gleaned for them. [11]
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