We have seen twenty or thirty bees devour a peach in half an hour; that is, they carried the juices of it to their cells.

With all its apparent potency, it has its evident weaknesses; moisture is everywhere at war with it, gases and temperature destroy its fiber and its life, continued blows or motion crystallize and rob it of its strength, and acids will devour it in a night.

Civilization apart, there is still a deal of the primitive in human nature, and wolves are not the only creatures that are prone to fall upon the disabled member of the pack and devour him.

A Rhode Island captain, for instance, wrote his owners from Anamabo in 1736, "heare is 7 sails of us rume men, that we are ready to devour one another, for our case is desprit"; while four years afterward another wrote after trading at the same port, "I have repented a hundred times ye lying in of them dry goods", which he had carried in place of the customary rum.

The Bible speaks of Satan "going about, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

And how ecstatic was the sensation of the plunge into the breakers, holding fast to my mother's hand, and then the race up the beach before the next comber, trembling lest it should catch me, as if it were a living thing ready to devour me.

All know that in ordinary cases fierce packs of blood-thirsty wolves would devour a man, and even a horse.

It is a mad and thriftless prodigal, Grown proud upon the favours of the court; Court manners, and court fashions, he affects, And in the heat and uncheck'd blood of youth, Harbours a company of riotous men, All hot, and young, court-seekers, like himself, Most skilful to devour a patrimony;

O intolerablythey fled him as fearfully when 'twas once blown, as a man would be avoided, who was suddenly discovered to have marks of the plague, and as fast; when before they had been ready to devour the foolishest thing he could say.

The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

So George Moore kept a pet python, and cultivated paganness by watching it devour rabbits alive.

It seemed to me that her emotions had no outlet, but turned back to rend and devour each other.

It surged over, through himlike the fire of the burning bushthat did not devour....

Believe me, I should not have cared to devour even ardent praise if it had not come from one who showed the discriminating sensibility, the perfect response to the artist's intention, which must make the fullest, rarest joy to one who works from inward conviction and not in compliance with current fashions.

In spring, summer, and autumn, they graze like sheep; and, during winter, have been fed with hay, and refuse vegetables from the garden; but their favourite food is gorse (U'lex europae'a), which they devour eagerly, without being annoyed by its prickles.

The most dramatic of the fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about midday, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of the innumerable pigeons that feed in the courtyard of that building, and flying up to the cornice to devour its victim at leisure.

"I would like to be," she continued pensively, "one of those animals of the sea that can cut with their claws, that have arms like scissors, saws, pincers ... that devour their own kind, and absorb everything around them.

The filaments of the carnivorous trees are garlands of lamps; the eyes of the hunting animals, electric globes; the insignificant bacteria, light-producing little glands all of which open or close with phosphorescent switches according to the necessity of the moment,sometimes in order to persecute and devour, and at others in order to keep themselves hidden in the shadows.

The great swimmers, supplied with formidable mandibles and immense and elastic stomachs, prefer the fortunes of war, the pursuit of living prey, and devour,as the carnivorous devour the herbivorous on land,all the little feeders on débris and plancton.

The great swimmers, supplied with formidable mandibles and immense and elastic stomachs, prefer the fortunes of war, the pursuit of living prey, and devour,as the carnivorous devour the herbivorous on land,all the little feeders on débris and plancton.

The whales, most bulky of all the oceanic inhabitants, close this destructive cycle, since they devour each other in order to live.

I should like to have them in my home, as they have gold-fishes in a globe, to feed them every hour, to see how they would devour...." Ferragut felt a recurrence of the same uneasiness that he had experienced one morning in the temple of Virgil.

She had none of the proud appearances of the metaphysical mind; she did not, so far as we know, devour, like George Eliot, whole systems of philosophy in her early youth.

" Each one reminded you of the Irishman's pig who was said to devour a half-bushel of boiled potatoes, and when he was outside of all that, he, himself, would not fill a two quart measure.

It glared at her whichever way she turned, a monster of destruction waiting to devour.