The ant-eater the foolish fellows had eaten themselvesI would have given them what they asked for his skeleton; but the Armadillo was cut up and hashed for us, and was eaten, to the last scrap, being about the best game I ever tasted.

The poor woman said that her children were all "hearty-etten," (all hearty eaters,) especially the lads; and she hardly knew what to make for them, so as to have enough for the whole.

This immunity from burns, to which the professional fire-eaters owe their success, comes from this film of moisture on their skin.

" "A certain old lady, who lived near Westbrook, Conn., aged seventy, was a confirmed opium eater, and used daily, an amount sufficient to kill twenty persons.

Also that the financiers are voracious meat eaters and the musicians inordinately fond of sweets.

There is not under the roof of the Tuileries a more abstemious eater or drinker.

As they are almost all insect-eaters, they are even more useful than the stay-at-home Citizens, who are chiefly seed-eaters or cannibals.

He was a little eater, but not averse to wine, particularly such as combined piquancy with sweetness; and he always dressed in black.

These filthy eaters of men are reported to have killed myriads of their kind to satisfy their passion.

Also that the financiers are voracious meat eaters and the musicians inordinately fond of sweets.

With a big skin, like that of the giant ant-eater, they had to squat on the ground; while the ducklings and wee chickens scuffled not only round the skin but all over it, grabbing the shreds and scraps of meat and catching flies.

The article was entitled "THE RUSSIAN TIGER" and was an account of the slaying of a gigantic man-eater by an American officer when American troops were stationed at Vladivostok, in eastern Russia.

The Meebaw are quick hunters and gross eaters, and travel slow.

It is a terrible thing when a hungry and ugly man-eater comes into a village, for the inhabitants are generally defenseless.

One does not break one's teeth on it as over the torone, which is only to be cajoled into masticability by prolonged suction, and often not then; but the teeth sink into it as the wagoner's wheels into clayey mire, and every now and then receive a shock, as from sunken rocks, from the raisin-stones, indurated almonds, pistachio-nuts, and pine-seeds, which startle the ignorant and innocent eater with frightful doubts.

The school has some good girls in it, but most of 'em are indolent candy-eaters.

Some physicians attribute the cause of dreams to vapours and humours, and the affections and cares of persons predominant when awake; for, say they, by reason of the abundance of vapours, which are exhaled in consequence of immoderate feeding, the brain is so stuffed by it, that monsters and strange chimera are formed, of which the most inordinate eaters and drinkers furnish us with sufficient instances.

This short-legged meat-eater loves half lights and lowering days, has no friends, no enemies, and disowns his offspring.

If you don't believe it put on a highly refined dress and try the experiment; and if you are not very specially spotted we wild give a fifty dollar greenback on behalf of the society for converting missionary eaters in Chillingowullabadorie.

And pr'ythee tell me, Jack, what but this that follows would have been the epitome of mine and my beloved's story, after ten years' cohabitation, had I never written to thee upon the subject, and had I not been my own accuser? 'Robert Lovelace, a notorious woman-eater, makes his addresses in an honourable way to Miss Clarissa Harlowe; a young lady of the highest meritfortunes on both sides out of the question.

Opium takes the second rank, and hemp the third; but the opiumand hashish-eaters usually add the free smoking of tobacco to their other indulgences.

" The noise attracted also the Judge and the Commissary, and there were now six officials in all, including the guard, all surrounding the General, a sufficiently imposing force to overawe even the most recalcitrant fire-eater.

The Jebri fort had been attacked only a year previous to my visit, but Chabas (who I afterwards heard at Kelát is a renowned fire-eater) gave the rebels such a warm reception that there has been no outbreak since.

"Aye verily, we do a little in that way as the custom is, for your reverent eater begetteth a devout pray-er.

Owing to the scarcity of provisions in the desert, the Azanhaji are but spare eaters, and are able to endure hunger with wonderful patience, as a poringer of barley-meal made into hasty-pudding will serve them a whole day.