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flesh-devouring

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  • It is almost as though God is saying, Now that I have smelled the sacrifice, I have seen that even after the destruction of the world, man at his very best is forever a lusty, flesh-devouring, rough-and-tumble shepherd type, scarcely more than an animal.

    The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010

  • All across America, the Jihad Resurrection Virus (JRV) seeps into the pores of the dead, waking them from their sleep and ghoulishly transforming peaceful corpses into flesh-devouring zombies.

    Song of the Dead | BuyZombie.com 2008

  • I replied that it would be about as welcome as a new plague of flesh-devouring viruses.

    Be First on the National Billboards-May-Not-Talk-to-Me List 2010

  • He said, it was a vulgar mistake to think that all flesh-devouring creatures were unfit to be eaten: witness the consumption of swine and ducks, animals that delight in carriage as well as fish, and prey upon each other, and feed on bait and carrion; together with the demand for bear, of which the best hams in the world are made.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Humans are barbaric, primal, flesh-devouring grunt machines.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Humans are barbaric, primal, flesh-devouring grunt machines.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Humans are barbaric, primal, flesh-devouring grunt machines.

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Once, many cycles ago, the five trapped in the citadel had run up that path themselves, pursued by a flesh-devouring dragon.

    Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • Their bodies were burned by the flesh-devouring fire and eaten by jackals.

    Twenty-Two Goblins Arthur William Ryder 1907

  • But he held to St. Pierre, with his twisted, broken leg, knowing that he would die if he dropped him into the flesh-devouring heat of the smoldering debris under his feet.

    The Flaming Forest James Oliver Curwood 1903

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