Swallow up

Usage examples of devour.

Diana, chagrined that Actaeon has seen her naked, transforms the hunter into a stag, who is then devoured by his own dogs.

She had been Agave, she had torn Pentheus and, in a metaphysical completion of the Dionysiac rite, she had devoured him.

Dione watched him as he devoured the breakfast that Alberta had prepared.

And once drawn to her, Georgia was utterly convinced they would remain to devour her backlist in its entirety.

I gave him a slice of Battenberg, which he dropped in his eagerness to devour it.

I was seated along the side of the road, leaning against a tree, devouring some simple breadstuffs I had in my pack.

Fry and his father devoured the cobia while his mother sipped crab bisque.

He was a tiny man, under five feet, and though suffering the continuing ills of the hypochondriac he had translated all of Plato and become a living dictionary of ancient philosophies by translating the body of Egyptian wisdom before devouring the work of the sages from Aristotle through the Alexandrians, Confucianists, Zoroastrians.

When the T cells reach your heart, Coxsackie jumps out and starts devouring healthy heart cells.

For the first time in their long history, the fiercely independent lords of High Hallack had united in common cause, for they had very quickly learned that if they did not, the individual Dales would be swept away one at a time until all had been devoured.

His vision of war dogs seemed to be of vicious animals, their jaws hanging open, and fangs exposed, and ready to bayonet and devour a treacherous enemy.

For, as the cat was called by Nature to be an ornithophage, so was Francis called by his own nature hungrily to devour such knowledge as could be taught in those days, and, because there were no schools but the monastic schools, he had donned the habit first of a postulant, later of a novice.

Voltaire, who devoured the Bible, and ridiculed our dogmas, doubts, and after having made proselytes to impiety, is not ashamed, being reduced to the extremity of life, to ask for the sacraments, and to cover his body with more relics than St.

As Sisipyla followed, watching her own feet in their sandals going one before the other, she thought about the terrible lion, and its even more terrible mother Echidna, daughter of Ge and Tartarus, half nymph, half speckled snake, who had lived in a cave in Arcadia, from which she rushed hissing out to seize and devour passers-by.

Australians learned the same lesson in 1932, when troops armed with machine guns and artillery attempted to destroy a flock of twenty thousand emus that was devouring Western Australian crops.