And the old king died; and the towers That Phoebus had builded did fall, And his wrath, as a flame that devours, Ran red over all; And the fields and the woodlands lay blasted, Long ago.

He now devours a crust of mouldy bread With teeth and hands the precious boon is torn, Unmindful of the storm which round his head Impetuous sweeps.

The animal with the largest mouth is usually the victor; and he has no sooner conquered his foe than he devours him.

The pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, With ravenous waste devours his fellow train; Yet howsoe'er with raging famine pined, The tench he spares, a medicinal kind; For when by wounds distress'd, or sore disease, He courts the salutary fish for ease; Close to his scales the kind physician glides, And sweats a healing balsam from his sides.

Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace, And glut thyself with what thy womb devours Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross: So little is our loss!

And what a vulture of a man must he be, who souses upon his prey, and in the same moment trusses and devours?

This somebody turns out to be Verty; and the young man's face blushes with delight at sight of Redbud, whom he runs to, and devours with his glances.

This little fish is fairly common round our coasts, living in weedy pools by the shore, where it devours any small creature unlucky enough to come near.

There is silence in the room as each of us devours the budget of news awaiting us.

His greedy appetite to riches is but a kind of dog-hunger, that never digests what it devours, but still the greedier and more eager it crams itself becomes more meagre.

His entrails are like the sarcophagus, that devours dead bodies in a small space, or the Indian zampatan, that consumes flesh in a moment.

He is a cormorant that has but one gut, devours everything greedily, but it runs through him immediately.

For when Nero burnt Rome, as Calisto urgeth, he fired houses, consumed men's bodies and goods; but this fire devours the soul itself, "and one soul is worth a hundred thousand bodies."

But from a cloud of smoke he breaks to light, And pours his specious miracles to sight; Antiphates his hideous feast devours, Charybdis barks, and Polyphemus roars.

That is, he destroys, devours and adapts his environment to the extent of his own thought and conscience.

He ate a swede as one devours a radish.

He hath cut off in the fierceness of his anger all of Israel's strength, He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, He hath burnt in Jacob like a flame, which devours on all sides.

Before them the fire devours, And behind them a flame burns; Like the garden of Eden is the land before them, And after them it is a desolate desert, Yea, nothing escapes them.

I am betrothed (literally, my hands are bound); It is for Te Maunee That my love devours me.

Since that time we have passed our evenings in private societies, or at home; and while Mr. D devours new pamphlets, and Mrs. D and the lady we lodge with recount their mutual sufferings at Arras and St. Pelagie, I take the opportunity of writing.

When Venus, in the sweet Idalian shade, A violet couch for young Ascanius made; Their op'ning gems, th' obedient roses bow'd And veil'd his beauties with a damask cloud: While the bright goddess with a gentle show'r, Of nectar'd dews, perfum'd the blissful bow'r; Of sight insatiate, she devours his charms.

The "might be" spoils for me what is, the "should be" devours me with melancholy; and this reality, present, irreparable, inevitable, disgusts or frightens me.

Of course they always say in this world that laws are necessary to keep the people in order, but what need there is here of our Law who devours all of us, I cannot understand.

KÂLA, the Hindu Chronus, or god of time, who, as in the Greek mythology, at once produces and devours all things.

A soldier, touched with compassion, takes a crust from his pocket to reward the dancing dog, which, overcome by the temptation, drops on his four legs, runs to him, and devours it, for which delinquency the old man beats him severely.