2651 examples of consumed in sentences

Now, because Sequoia trunks are never wholly consumed in one forest fire, and those fires recur only at considerable intervals, and because Sequoia ditches after being cleared are often left unplanted for centuries, it becomes evident that the trunk remnant in question may probably have lain a thousand years or more.

At length the roots decay, and the forlorn trunks are blown down during some storm, and piled one upon another encumbering the ground until they are consumed by the next fire, and leave it ready for a fresh crop.

The few pounds of honey and wax produced are consumed at home, and are scarcely taken into account among the coarser products of the farm.

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.

We went to work, all hands of us, to get in the studding-sails, and to brace up and haul aft; an operation that consumed nearly two hours.

Minute passed after minute, until a considerable period had been consumed; yet neither of the combatants became fairly visible to us.

The prison was burned down, and all the prisoners consumed, and seven doctors' shops along with it.

The gentry were not in a position to take part fully in the capitalist manipulations, because they had never possessed much capital; their wealth had lain entirely in their land, and the income from their rents was consumed quite unproductively in luxurious living.

Gordon's idea was to advance in a hollow square, which, in spite of Hamilton's sneer at him as a 'freshwater land officer,' was a good enough formation in the circumstances; but so much time was consumed in getting the men into the required formation, owing to the inexperience and want of discipline among both officers and men, that the enemy took heart again and advanced to meet them.

He had lived at Lichfield "man and boy above eight and fifty years, and not consumed eight and fifty ounces of meat."

New Zealand, for example, having spent half a century and more in sheep-farming, land legislation, suppressing its drink traffic, lowering its birth-rate, and, in short, the achievement of an ideal preventive materialism, is chiefly consumed by hate and fear of Japan, which in the same interval has made a stride from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, and which teems with art and life and enterprise and offspring.

Clark had lost a great deal of property, besides that which had been consumed in his burned home.

I awoke in the middle of the night to find that my last garments had been consumed, leaving but the waistband of my trousers.

After he had sat for some time, and consumed with anxiety to know the nature of his visit, I said: "Well, George, what is it?" "Have you heard about the Snakes," was his instant answer.

As a series of religious meetings was held in a Baptist church in , and the hearts of God's people were greatly encouraged, the church was consumed by fire.

In order to spare the silk any jerk as the balloon is released two pieces of string united with a slow match carry the strain between the instrument and the balloon until the slow match is consumed.

Other details as to the carbide consumed in making acetylene gas may be briefly quoted.

"The youth was being consumed by a slow malady.

That good lady was alone, and after a few civilities Mr. Lewisham opened his Shakespeare and read from a mark onwardthat mark, by-the-bye, was in the middle of a scenewhile he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.

I have wandered through these mountains consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify.

" It is Heathcliff's susceptibility to this immaterial passion, the fury with which he at once sustains and is consumed by it, that makes him splendid.

This gentleman among his virtues did not reckon sobriety, and one night, being overcome with much wine, he set fire to his bed curtains, partially burned himself, and totally consumed the house.

Whereas the big cultivator obtained higher prices to balance the increased cost of production, the peasant, who produced for his own consumption, could only face such increase by a corresponding decrease in the amount of food consumed.

Morelove, who must have been admirably played by the fiery, impetuous Powell, is neither a libertine, nor, on the other hand, a prig; he is simply a gentlemanly and essentially human fellow who is consumed with an honest passion for Lady Betty Modish.

The commitee sat not less than five different times, which consumed the space of eight days, before a final decision took place.

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