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.

Murray's Modern London contains the following statistics: "The Metropolis is supposed to consume in one year 1,600,000 quarters of wheat, 300,000 bullocks, 1,700,000 sheep, 28,000 calves, and 35,000 pigs.

Thus was born the "Nouvelle Héloïse,"a novel of immense fame, in which the characters are invested with every earthly attraction, living in voluptuous peace, yet giving vent to those passions which consume the unsatisfied soul.

After a day of frivolity he would consume the midnight hours in the intensest studies, stimulated by gin, to awake in the morning in lassitude or pain,for work he must, as well as play.

I avoid sight, rather, and study to consume my own smoke.

And for her sake ile power my poore Soule forth In floods of inke; but did not his kinde hand Barre me with violent grace, I wood consume In the white flames of her impassionate love, Ere my harsh lipps shood vent the odorous blaze.

Lycaon-like exenterate, as so many cannibals eat up, or Cadmus' soldiers consume one another.

sólo un beso tuyo podrá calmar el ardor que me consume.

Y lás mariposas blancas y las libélulas azules, que giran por el aire en extraños círculos, se paraban un momento en nuestros dentellados bordes á contarse los secretos de ese misterioso amor que dura un instante y les consume la vida.

[Footnote 1: y les consume la vida.

consultar, to consult, ask, advise, consult about, ask advice about. consumir, to consume, eat, cost. consunción, f., consumption.

devorar, to devour, absorb, consume.

The jerry-builder may consume, A greedy moth, God's mantle of the living green, I feel no wrath; Eat up the beauty of the world, And gorge his fill On mead and winding country lane, And grassy hill.

Tully, canst thou not Indure a little danger for my love, The fierie spleene of an angrie Father, Who like a storme will soon consume it self?

"But 'the wicked shall perish; they shall consume into smoke, they shall consume away.'

"But 'the wicked shall perish; they shall consume into smoke, they shall consume away.'

Blair continued to burn the midnight oil and consume page after page of Greek and mathematics and German, which, as he confided despondently to Digbee, he promptly forgot the next moment.

Except for brief periods of poverty, in the Zion of exile he lived very much at ease, nor did the zeal of the Lord ever consume him.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass; they shall be rooted out; their sword shall go through their own heart; their arms shall be broken; they shall consume as the fat of lambs, and as the smoke they shall consume away; though they flourish like a green bay-tree, they shall be gone, and though we seek them, their place shall nowhere be found.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass; they shall be rooted out; their sword shall go through their own heart; their arms shall be broken; they shall consume as the fat of lambs, and as the smoke they shall consume away; though they flourish like a green bay-tree, they shall be gone, and though we seek them, their place shall nowhere be found.

Hams and bacon forming part of his own trade, he wrote to certain farmers with whom he was in the habit of dealing, to send him up an unlimited supply of flitches and gammons; and his orders being promptly and abundantly answered, he soon found he had more bacon than he could possibly consume.

As the prophet Amos saith, 'The Lord will send a fire, the Lord will commission a fire, the Lord will kindle a fire;' and the fire so commissioned and so kindled shall consume you and your city; nor shall one stone of those walls be left standing on another.

He acknowledged indeed that freemen worked the most; but they consume the most also.

These two feasts would consume not less than sixty-five days not reckoned above.

The mischief effected by rats is almost incredible; it has been said that, in some cases, in the article of corn, these little animals consume a quantity in food equal in value to the rent of the farm.