359 collocations for consuming

He could go just so fast; must consume just so much time in his snail-like progress up the face of the hill.

It was, however, the richness of the decorations and of the sacred vessels and the altars for sacrifice, which consumed immense quantities of gold, silver, and brass, that made the Temple especially remarkable.

Do not scamp the lists, though their proper preparation consume many days, many weeks.

Probably they had consumed over 300 hours in debate.

They had quickly consumed all the food with which the generous Plymouthers had supplied them, and had then stolen everything on which they could lay their hands.

So leave him to the vengeance of Godlest the fire of thy vengeance consume thee quite.

I dragged myself into a corner after a time, from which some other wretch had been rolled out in the course of a quarrel; and as I found that silence was the only policy, I kept silent, with rage consuming my heart.

Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

Had he been willing to say, as the flames consumed his body, "Jesus, thou eternal Son of God, have mercy on me!"

The Italians of this day consume the greater portion of their flour in the form of polenta, or soft pudding, vermicelli, and macaroni; and, in the remoter districts of Scotland, much unfermented bread is still used.

" "Consume your own smoke, eh?" suggested Jeremy.

A concerted effort at the task of understanding them, backed by the labors of tens of thousands of workers, would, without a doubt, accomplish as much for humanity as the vast armies and navies that consume the substance of mankind.

" "Did this struggle consume forty minutes?

And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

If it hurries, a caravan consumes a whole year in visiting these places.

I have dipped my pen in consuming fire for his destroyers: otherwise the style is calm and solemn.

"It has made a great difference to Avis since he took my advice in that matter: he used to consume half a pound a-day.

The Corfutes complained with great reason of the intolerable weight of taxation to which they were subjected; of the utter neglect of their interests by the central government, which consumed their wealth, and of the great abuses which prevailed in the administration of justice; but the remedy they adopted, by placing themselves under the rule of foreign masters, was not likely to alleviate these evils.

The celebrated diver, Mr. Spalding, observed, that whenever he used a diet of animal food, or drank spirituous liquors, he consumed in a much shorter period the oxygen of the atmospheric air in his diving-bell; and he therefore, on such occasions, confined himself to vegetable diet.

The harvest of this year was poor and scanty; and the great accession to their numbers, caused by the visit of Weston's settlers, had entirely consumed the stores of the Plymouthers, and reduced them again to actual want.

It is conceivable, therefore, that we might consume all non-durable things the moment they were ready, and the degree to which we approximate to this ideal is a mark of the efficiency of our economic system.

For the husbandman weeps at blights of the fife, and blasting of trumpets consume The souls of mild France; the pale mother nourishes her child to the deadly slaughter.

Would you consume the entire city, and make of its ruins a horrible monument to your memory? Do not say, "We have not done this; it is the people who are working out their own revenge, and we stand for nothing, we are as gentle as lambs.

We know well how, in some manufactures, a certain amount of waste is profitablethat it pays better to let certain substances run to refuse, than to use every product of the manufacture; as in a steam mill, where it pays better not to consume the whole fuel, to let the soot escape, though every atom of soot is so much wasted fuel.

that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

359 collocations for  consuming