devouring

• But how, it may be asked, can it be ascertained that a hive is seriously infested with the all-devouring worms? —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
• They were like a devouring fire, but more violent than ever. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• No fiction was too monstrous for their all-devouring credulity. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• By the bye, know, O thou devourer of grapes, who contemnest the vulgar gooseberry, that thou art not singular in thy devouring--_nec tam aversus equos sol jungit p.153} ab urbe (Kelsonianâ scilicet)_--my uncle being the lawful possessor of a vinery measuring no less than twenty-four feet by twelve, the contents of which come often in my way; and according to the proverb, that enough is as good as a feast, are equally acceptable as if they came out of the most extensive vineyard in France. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• It was then that a journal-loving commandant took the step, giving evidence of strong self-command, of not "devouring" the post at once, but reading the newspapers day by day a year after they were published. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

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