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Letter "D" » devouring
«Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.»
Author: A. S. W. Rosenbach
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Keywords:
Alice,
Alice in,
Alice in Wonderland,
contents,
devouring,
edition,
editions,
favorites,
first edition,
literally,
nursery,
scarcities,
scarcity,
The Nursery,
wonderland
«Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
demanding,
devouring,
incessantly,
insatiably,
long ago,
nourished,
streams,
sucks,
The Giant,
uninhabited,
wearies
«The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? / He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; / He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bribes,
defence,
devouring,
dwell on,
fearfulness,
hold water,
hypocrites,
munitions,
oppressions,
righteously,
sinners,
uprightly
«Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.»
«Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: / And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.»
«And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.»
«CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
addicted,
adj,
assign,
assigning,
assigns,
carnivorous,
devouring,
heirs,
timorous,
vegetarian
«We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong»