To Colcos comen is this duk Iasoun, 1580 That is of love devourer and dragoun.
Who is a devourer of love, and a very dragon'; with reference to the supposed insatiability of dragons.
It was said that Monferrand, once a devourer of priests, was now smilingly coquetting with the clergy.
Of the nest and the cocoon of the victim the intruder makes its own nest, its own cocoon, and in the following year, instead of the master of the house, he will emerge from underground as the usurping bandit, the devourer of the inhabitant.
Within this fatal circle, in which the devourerand the devoured, the exploiter and the exploited, lead an eternal dance, can we not perceive a ray of light?
And that which the Lapper left the Devourer hath eaten.
And I will restore to you the years which the Swarmer has eaten, The Lapper, the Devourer and the Shearer, My great army whom I sent among you.
To the devourer it seems as if the producer was in his chains; but it is not so, he only takes portions of existence, and fancies that the whole.
But the Prolific would cease to be prolific unless the Devourer as a sea received the excess of his delights.
One of them appeared quite recently at Ahmadabad, and being supposed to carry off children in the disguise of a badger, was called Adam Khor, or the devourer of the sons of men.
Hence the bird is known as Balipushta or "nourished by offerings," and Balibhuj or "devourer of oblations.
He denounces damnation upon the devourer of the widow's house.
The Devourer of the Sun became a Devourer of the Hebrew people, just as the Sun-hero became the Hebrew national hero.
A devourer of English literature, he will not venture into conversation in our tongue, for he has had little practice.
Why not remarry and snatch some happiness from the devourerof all happiness--Time?
He was like a devourer of romances, who reads a thrilling story link by link, and who is impatient for every new chapter of the fiction.
The half-bound romances were snatched ruthlessly from this young devourer of light literature, and sent back to the shabby circulating library at Swampington.
Temminck describes it under the name Bombycivora, or devourer of Bombyx, a large moth, a name quite unfit for a bird which lives exclusively on fruits and berries.
The witch is sometimes herself (as a wolf-cloud or wolf-darkness) a devourer of young luminous kids or lambs, such as the Schmierbock in the Norwegian story.
The devourer was assured of good luck during the year.
In the end Prajapati created Death, “a devourerof creatures”.
The Jackal, which is perhaps more like a wolf than a fox, and lives in Africa and parts of Asia, is also a great devourer of game and poultry.
I have heard that the flies which molest the crocodile are gnats, and their devourer a kind of plover.
At Eton, 'Old Walker' had an eager devourerof his words, a delighted witness of his experimental demonstrations, in Mad Shelley.
The answer must be sought in the poet's ancestral story, the characteristics of the romantic literature of which he had been a greedy devourer from his early childhood, and the conditions of his life at Eton.
Upon him who breaketh this my commandment may the wrath of the Air-god most avenging fall, may he be smitten with pestilence, may his limbs rot and drop asunder, and may he fall captive in the hands of the great Devourer of the Living.
Just as that conviction was forced strongly upon me, I also discovered another more startling fact, which rendered my despair complete, and told me plainly that in that dwelling of the Great Devourer I should find my grave.
The Devourer from the outer world hath been discovered wandering upon the mountains.
One of the stanchest patrons was little Ned Higgins, the devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who to-day signalized his omnivorous prowess by swallowing two dromedaries and a locomotive.
Hepzibah's final operation was with the little devourer of Jim Crow and the elephant, who now proposed to eat a camel.
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