And yet what a bloated, gluttonous devourer of hopes and labors is this same precipitation!

" Some lawyers are worse than highway robbers; they make the laws as legislators to suit their own iniquitous, selfish purposes, so worded that they are susceptible of almost any interpretation, thus leading to endless litigations by which these cannibal devourers of reputations are robbing the public of their possessions.

Unashamed, she took him as her own.... Exquisite devourer, yet she had much to do in bringing forth from the latent, one of the rarest gifts a boy can havelovelier than royalty and fine as geniusthe blue flower of fastidiousness.

And yet what a bloated, gluttonous devourer of hopes and labors is this same precipitation!

Such a ridiculous kind of pity his, as those silly souls have, who would not kill an innocent chicken for the world; but when killed to their hands, are always the most greedy devourers of it.

Forthwith the ideal devourer of crops and herbs not only loses his appetite, but arising, smacks the earth with a hoe till the clods fly and the fields laugh with harvest.

A winding stream, which we subsequently found to be perfectly ubiquitous, and an insatiable devourer of errant golf-balls, ran deviously through the valley, which seemed to be rather over a mile long, and almost equally wide.

The great marine devourers, therefore, are those that reëstablish equilibrium and order.

But this oviparous devourer of such great reproductive power would, in turn, continue the world danger were it not that another monster as avid in appetite as it is weak in procreation, intervenes and cuts down with one blow the ever-increasing fecundity of the ocean.