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    1. Noisily, I devour the bacon, egg and tomatoey potatoes and wash it all down with two cups of tepid coffee


    2. "By their so-called prayers," said he, "they devour the people's goods


    3. He felt the hunger and craved to devour


    4. Being excused for her tardiness, she then quickly grabbed the menu, signaled to the waiter to take their orders, and began to devour the appetizers and down the drink that were awaiting her while chattering non-stop about a myriad of details related to her clothing stores and the up and downside of the operations


    5. raging fire will literally devour God’s enemies when they’re cast into the lake of


    6. Devour the semi-defrosted turkey the day before Christmas Eve


    7. He felt their razor teeth bite into his bare legs, hundreds all unconsciously following the simple instruction to devour


    8. The wild dogs were gathering around the circle of light now, and two of them boldly began to devour Penny


    9. Settling back Brock began to do just that, feeding his memories to the hungry force that waited so impatiently to devour them


    10. Satan shall devour you together!

    11. Behold, I shall make My words in the mouths of My prophet’s fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them! For they liken My prophets to predators, and speak of My messengers as though they were brute beasts risen up from the past, as snakes rearing their heads across the ages


    12. She watched him watching her, luxuriating in the way his gaze seemed to devour her body


    13. A blue-white hot light engulfed him then, as if it was ready to devour him whole


    14. Reach your hand to the Evil and let it devour you


    15. She pulled away from it, suddenly horrified that it would become real and devour her so that she would have to be there


    16. It would devour them


    17. The feeling of the Evil that hovered above her and with its cold evil sent the fear through her body to devour her soul


    18. 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever? Know you not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how


    19. ” She said, beginning to devour the food on the trey


    20. “But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another

    21. Amo 2:2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:


    22. Jdg 9:20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech


    23. Jer 48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones


    24. Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee


    25. Also note that a fiery indignation will devour these people who refuse to listen


    26. 13 The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it


    27. 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth


    28. 18 For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the


    29. devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body,


    30. 9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest

    31. all the beasts of the field, come to devour


    32. and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heavens, and the beasts of the Earth, to devour and destroy


    33. even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath Day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces


    34. devour round about you


    35. come out out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the


    36. fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him


    37. and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them


    38. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but


    39. God; Because they say to you, You land devours up men, and has bereaved your nations: 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more,


    40. of it between the teeth of it, and they said so to it, Arise, devour much flesh

    41. kingdoms, and shall devour the whole Earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces


    42. were not yet given to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel


    43. month devour them with their portions


    44. forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities, but I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall devour


    45. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own


    46. meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the


    47. threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of


    48. to deliver them up to Edom: 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces of it: 8 And I will cut off the


    49. will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces of it


    50. his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his anger forever: 12 But I will send a fire on Teman, which shall devour the palaces of









































    1. She believed he had left it in the woods to be devoured and could not forgive him for that, even though it could never have survived


    2. The worry that any of her crew really could be devoured any minute brought real tears to her eyes


    3. But what about now, on his own and helpless? How long would he be able to live this way? Was it just hours or minutes until he was devoured? Or would he avoid the carnivores only to slowly starve to death as he wandered around completely lost for the next few weeks?


    4. At that time Alan knew the next thing that would happen was that he would be devoured, accompanied by the screams of Desa and Luray


    5. Where the wine flows and spills, the food devoured, the


    6. 30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots,


    7. Harry's dictionary became dog-eared and worn through constant reference and the texts of his book lists had all been crossed through as he devoured the information and insights each had to offer


    8. By the time her narration splattered against the present at thirty decades a minute they had devoured all the snacks and were just lying in the rays


    9. Should it grow beyond our control, it will not stop feeding until the entire Seventh World is devoured


    10. Like all things living, they were eventually devoured by the Plague

    11. down to eat, they devoured the simple meals (more often


    12. The carcase is often left to rot upon the ground, or to be devoured by beasts and birds of prey


    13. It devoured children who refuse to obey their elders


    14. At first glance, that would not seem to be the case at all here, since the poor, helpless Galloping Gopher could not live in peace much of the time due to the constant threat and her subsequent fear of being attacked and devoured by the swift and sharp-toothed Crafty Coyote


    15. Phil's body, not knowing that its thoughts had just been manipulated, reacted as though it had suddenly devoured an enormous quantity of its favourite foods


    16. No matter how many fowl he devoured, bones and all - and it had amounted to a fair few during his lifetime - Mr Pinscher retained the appearance of a frail and listless marionette, that has been abandoned by its master


    17. devoured the slick liquid in a single lift


    18. Another bull-horned Nymloc charged towards him, and he wrapped the creature in blue fire that devoured its flesh in seconds, the charred remains falling before him in a heap


    19. It was a loud bang from across the yard that saved him from being devoured


    20. They could also have been the eyes of a large cat just before it devoured its prey

    21. By this means this wonderful fetish priest had consulted the Spirits, and the Gods had devoured the life from the wicked woman whose only offence, most probably, was that her husband was tired of her


    22. Another more inquisitorial form of torture was to bury a man to his neck in a colony of white ants, who slowly devoured the flesh off the living body


    23. Thanks to efforts of the Thimble Down fighters and the brother bears, the pirate army had been utterly destroyed, and thanks to Carl and Frumple, in many cases devoured


    24. Maldynado devoured two more


    25. Can we wonder, then, that these ignorant Negroes were demoralised at the sight of hard tack and bacon? They broke open the boxes and devoured the first square meal of three years, with so much gusto that certain gentlemen looked on with disgust and called them pigs, and energetic pressmen were speedily making copy on the “lazy Cubans' hate of work and love of eating


    26. on the table, and was eagerly devoured by Katey and her father


    27. He tilted his head to the side, and it reminded me of the curious motion of a cat before it devoured its prey


    28. He killed the rodents before putting them into the tank after the first one he dropped in screamed as it was devoured


    29. In the hotel restaurant, they devoured a pizza and salad and decided to walk on the beach


    30. Princess Ruby devoured an apple; she needed to keep her strength up for tonight

    31. Ten billion possibilities and all as insignificant as any other, to be devoured by time and the explosion of our star


    32. The feast itself had been enthusiastically devoured by the great throng who surrounded her central position


    33. She had told everything to the dark green sea that had risen above her and devoured her


    34. Later that evening they devoured a cold meal of re-hydrated beef and vegetables


    35. The empty bodies whirled down into the frothing waves, and they were devoured by the ocean


    36. Regardless of the condition of the body, whether it is in a grave, in a state of decomposition, returned to dust or burnt to ash, devoured by a beast, or in the ocean, whatever the condition of the believers body, no matter what and where, on the day of resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ will resurrect and revive that which is left, where after the believer will be in heaven, with Christ for ever


    37. Note the verse above; they performed something which God had not commanded them to do and they were devoured by fire


    38. Zec 9:4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire


    39. Isa 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left


    40. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place

    41. 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground


    42. Eze 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof


    43. shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has


    44. devoured the Earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the Earth are burned, and few men left


    45. have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion


    46. shame has devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters


    47. devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those who dwell in it


    48. families that call not on your name, for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his


    49. 7 All that found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, We


    50. has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations of













































    1. or devouring the latest craze on the box


    2. They might have been dragging it farther away, but they were more interested in the devouring than the dragging


    3. was convinced he was devouring himself from the inside out


    4. John walked around her slowly, circling his prey and devouring it from


    5. As he came upon the crumpled tower at the edge of the city, the Eater was within him, devouring him from the inside out


    6. With the Eater devouring his insides as quickly as they were healed, X’ander headed towards the Rift, and the final battle for the Seventh World


    7. If it returned in full force, neither Anon’s light nor Adros’ staff could stop it from devouring them


    8. Soon a hundred Fire Lions and over sixty Shadow Hounds were charging through the camp, knocking down and devouring vampires in massive gulping bites


    9. He had no idea as to whether or not the reconstituted cutlet he was devouring with gusto


    10. To him, it was inconceivable that Brockenhurst Sett could erupt into an expanding fireball, devouring all before it– that badgers would die horrible deaths, beating at flames as they sprang into life on their fur

    11. For the wicked gather like locusts, and their sin spreads forth like a swarm, devouring and polluting the land! Therefore shall their pain be great, and their affliction intolerable!


    12. His smile was as huge as the steaks he was already devouring in his mind


    13. They were obviously still too busy devouring their unexpected meal to bother with him for the moment


    14. Had the monsters from his cubhood dreams pulled it down into the nadir? Were they even now devouring the body in the cold depths?


    15. Miss Ellen, who was a great reader, had been devouring a book on the Kaiser of Germany, and she demanded Mr


    16. the burden of it is heavy; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath, as an overflowing


    17. voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring


    18. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who


    19. devouring homesteads and crops


    20. The wave roared through the harbor, devouring a small speedboat and

    21. Maggots of corruption devouring the corpse of our civilization


    22. I panted in nervous trepidation, once Zacchaeus was out of sight, and we were left alone, in the safe silence of a cold, foggy Boston evening, the wolf contemplated devouring his next slay


    23. It was frustrating and entirely vindictive for him to be devouring pink fairy floss in my company, but even after my repetitive droning and complaining, Akua didn’t seem to care


    24. Yes, they cried to them, but they did not listen to what they said to 8 them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded; And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew on those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them; And I saw till horns grew on those lambs, and the ravens throw down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened; And it looked at them and their eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it; And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down on them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out; And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it


    25. 15 And Zepho went and he saw and note there was a large cave at the bottom of the mountain, and there was a great stone there at the entrance of the cave, and Zepho split the stone and he came into the cave and he looked and note, a large animal was devouring the ox; from the middle upward it resembled a man, and from the middle downward it resembled an animal, and Zepho rose up against the animal and killed it with his swords


    26. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel


    27. and I contemplate devouring the entire picture, but instead I look away into nothing, a void with


    28. Yes they cried to them but they did not listen to what they said to 8 them but were exceedingly deaf and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded; And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew on those lambs and took one of those lambs and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them; And I saw till horns grew on those lambs and the ravens throw down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep and their eyes were opened; And it looked at them and their eyes opened and it cried to the sheep and the rams saw it and all ran to it; And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down on them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent but the rams lamented and cried out; And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn but they had no power over it


    29. 15 And Zepho went and he saw and note there was a large cave at the bottom of the mountain and there was a great stone there at the entrance of the cave and Zepho split the stone and he came into the cave and he looked and note a large animal was devouring the ox; from the middle upward it resembled a man and from the middle downward it resembled an animal and Zepho rose up against the animal and killed it with his swords


    30. He seizes the limb and rips it from the dog’s devouring teeth

    31. Devouring the leaves in a rage


    32. that those grain devouring bastards urinated and defecated on the


    33. a monstrous Sphinx that was devouring millions of victims; then the Russians


    34. We have learned how great the mother’s phallic, devouring power is, and


    35. devouring uterus that is the Cyclops’ cave


    36. But aren’t such stories grand? I love devouring them


    37. And I see now, that he has been feeding on you as well; preying on your fears and devouring your souls, bite by bite! The good doctor is just plain bad blood!”


    38. What fascinating inebriation impregnates the soul and the hearts in the closeness of a celebration! It seems that the problems flee, frightened, terrified, by the deafening noise of the scandalous music and the brazen laughter of those who have been invited to with flamboyance, devouring bottles and bottles of champagne and succulent mussels on toasted buns


    39. You burn to catch up, your two wheels devouring the asphalt


    40. She was devouring the shrimps that graced her plate

    41. Ravenously devouring gigantic wedges of cheddar and imported Swiss on a freezing night of reality more real than a cold gun, green naked men and women poured out of undulating walls


    42. Cilus stood over the three men as they were being held down by heavy stones, and pressed his fingers into each man's skull, ripping out their brains and devouring their souls


    43. Then there were huge sand octopi that came through the crowds, eating and devouring the people


    44. However, once he had seen the super-spatial-transmitted broadcasts of The Eliminator devouring vast regions of space-time-probability-improbability and all who lived within, changing everything into itself, McWipple knew what had to be done


    45. They were all within her as she touched Tommy’s tongue with hers, devouring it like nothing else on earth existed


    46. "I place my trust in Mitra," she said, bending her gaze on Conan, who was now devouring the food placed before him by the trembling Vateesa


    47. She shook her head in wonder at his calm audacity, and fell to devouring her pear


    48. Having put on clean clothes for the first time in ages, I went back to join my family and ate my meal, devouring each mouthful far quicker than I knew was sensible


    49. Devouring Tens Of Thousands


    50. Scrolling down the page and passing images and real life videos of warriors firing plasma weapons and devouring victims, he saw where there was the small note about genothroid queens














































    1. The mantis captures, holds and devours many different bothersome insects


    2. Just as the caterpillar devours the plant it will return as a butterfly to pollenate, the Livingsons utilized and nurtured the forest, the mountains, the meadows and the waters


    3. The hog, that finds his food among ordure, and greedily devours many things rejected by every other useful animal, is, like poultry, originally kept as a save-all


    4. room and then devours the key


    5. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left


    6. In a panic, LP said, "I'll drive before this place devours us


    7. Lust is the animal that devours respect! the voice of probity protested but with a volume diminished as if by a greater distance than before, but his arm suddenly came loose


    8. him! 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their


    9. from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours around about


    10. God; Because they say to you, You land devours up men, and has bereaved your nations: 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more,

    11. 3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the Garden of Eden before


    12. 18 The belly devours all meats, yet is one meat better than another


    13. numbering of those whom the fire devours


    14. '42 And I answered and said: 'O Adam what have you done to all those who are born from you? And what will be said to the first Eve who listened to the serpent? 43 For all this multitude are going to corruption nor is there any numbering of those whom the fire devours


    15. Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty


    16. It is an illness that devours us


    17. devours its witch mother,


    18. All know that in that grim chamber lurks some monster from the black night of ages, which devours the shrieking humans Taramis delivers up to it


    19. control and devours an entire bag of potato chips or candy


    20. It devours the treat in one

    21. He greedily plucks and devours the white Gods’ Eye bloom, then another, then another


    22. But there is also the desert, which devours the land and is slowly transforming Belvun into the same kind of place I’m trying to escape


    23. we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its


    24. He must face the mother who devours and the mother that seduces and


    25. It then explodes in all its violence and life becomes an infernal labyrinth that hides a frightening monster that continually devours us


    26. He carefully recalls his descent into Hades, which was possible because of Circe’s indispensable help, and he understands the illusion that devours those who run after power and glory


    27. She, in fact, does not want to make any decisions to recognize and love Ulysses, as she is still attached to her childhood, her expectations, and the maternal element that devours her life (the Suitors)


    28. Bokassa, the child who was devoured, or Bokassa, the child who devours?


    29. In prison, not being able to devour human flesh, he devours the pages of the Bible and declares himself an Apostle of Christ


    30. The mother is first sadistic and devours, then she becomes masochistic and allows herself to be devoured

    31. First the child is masochistic and allows itself to be devoured, then it becomes sadistic and devours


    32. I am speaking of myself so I can speak to you about you, with the hopes that someone will see themselves in me, not only because of what you have suffered but because of what you have chosen to do to leave behind your identity as one who was devoured and one who devours


    33. The fourth encounter comes about in the Strait of Messina, where Scylla strikes Ulysses’ ship in an instant and devours six of Ulysses’ companions with its six heads


    34. They are the last powerful symbol of a mother who devours the life of both Ulysses and Penelope


    35. He smiles at him as he devours the last of the samples


    36. She soon accepts a half of each of the little girls’ cookies, as they seem to know that she is hungry, and she devours them hungrily, the oats, the chocolate, the peanut butter and all


    37. devours it himself, never sharing it with others


    38. How many human societies have had groups of killers hunting by night under the cover of darkness? What is the archetype of the rapist? Someone who hunts small children at night and devours them


    39. Mind gives space to divine light, which ultimately devours all the negative and dark conditions and what prevails in the end is nothing but unpolluted sense of oneness and sweetness


    40. � Even as this identity becomes consumed by the dominator/conformist/media model of existence, this identity feels that it devours the other

    41. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must within this way be hurt


    42. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth , and devours their enemies : and if any man will hurt them, he must within this way be hurt


    43. fire consumes, devours and destroys


    44.  Fire must be changed into something that preserves, not something that devours or consumes


    45. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth , and devours their enemies :


    46. but never devours, fire that never consumes


    47. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any


    48. Fire must be changed into something that preserves, not something that devours or consumes


    49. Lesson: The Lion with the beehive in its belly sleeps and is forever forgotten, but the Green Lion who devours the sun, is remembered and the gold it shits out is forever worshipped


    50. suit today's teaching of fire that eternality burns but never devours, fire that never

















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    Synonyms for "devour"

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    "devour" definitions

    destroy completely


    enjoy avidly


    eat up completely, as with great appetite


    eat greedily