At these words of a woman so young and so lovely, Jacques Ferrand felt sometimes his mind wandering; a devouring imagery pursued him, waking or sleeping.
Possessing a consummate medical experience, he at once saw that Ferrand's anguish at seeing himself dispossessed of his fortune, joined to his passion for Cecily, had lighted up the flames of a devouring fever.
Come, come quick, Skeleton is making a beast of himself; he is capable of devouring the whole with Barbillon.
Why, man is a cannibal in a moral sense, for he is constantly devouring his fellow-man!
The food and hot coffee cheered me; and I began to feel grateful to Bones for having supplied the means to appease the hunger that was devouring me.
In the next plate he made Joseph riding in triumph on an ox crowned with ears of corn and fruits, with a standard on which is a bee-hive; and the prisoners that are led behind him are Anger and Envy, who are devouring a heart.
And those who had seen him painting said: "When Delacroix paints, he looks like a lion devouring a piece of flesh.
He endures a pang of regret and resentment when, in reading the account of a fire, he finds no allusion to “the devouring element.
Well thou didst advise, Yet not for thy advise or threats I fly These wicked Tents devoted, least the wrauth Impendent, raging into sudden flame Distinguish not: for soon expect to feel His Thunder on thy head, devouring fire.
The Indians had fallen upon the provisions brought by the Spaniards for their own consumption, and were devouring them ravenously.
And thereat in token he disclosed to view his enormous tooth, in which appeared monstrous dints, left by that unnatural meal; and his great throat, that seemed capable of devouring up the earth and all its inhabitants at one meal.
You would have said that dogs were devouring it, and sometimes there was a swelling in it as big as a child's head.
An ardent desire, which each passing minute heightened and irritated, was upbuoying them, like a more and more devouring thirst, which only the waters of the miraculous fountain could appease.
Then she had another short interval of calm, during which she noticed La Grivotte, who was greedily devouring her hunk of bread on the mattress on the floor.
They were late, no doubt, for they were hastening onward at full speed, thundering along under the stormy sky, through the fiery atmosphere, devouring kilometre after kilometre in swift succession.
It does not wait for the young birds to be hatched, but is very clever in breaking open the eggs and devouring the contents, always bringing them on to dry land for the purpose.
So greedy is he that Howard Saunders tells of having seen him eagerly devouringthe carcase of a recently shot member of the same brood as himself.
The Magpie confers immense benefits by devouring slugs, snails, worms, rats and mice, and these ought surely to weigh against its depredations in the poultry yard, and where eggs and game are concerned.
The good this bird does in devouring water-rats, field-mice, worms and insects is counterbalanced by its depredations amongst the fish where the latter are a consideration.
A writer in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society say that he has seen “a small party of these birds eagerly devouring the seeds of the large sow-thistle.
Like the Rook it follows the plough, devouring vast quantities of worms and grubs.
Fortunately for them, a victim had already been secured, and the brutes were too busy devouring him to pay attention to anything else.
I want to lead the Great Master to two lions," he said; "they have just killed a zebra and are now devouring it.
It was of course, this unfortunate man whom I had heard the lions devouring during the night.
He turned round in blank astonishment and could hardly believe his eyes when he saw two fine lions only about two hundred yards off, busily engaged in devouring a wildebeeste which they had evidently just killed.
I may mention here that early next morning two other lions were found devouring the one we had first shot; but they had not had time to do much damage, and the head, which I have had mounted, makes a very fine trophy indeed.
On questioning him I found that the lions had tried to snatch a man from the camp by the river, but being foiled in this had seized and killed one of the donkeys, and were at that moment busy devouring it not far off.
This remark was called forth by the sight of one of the elderly females, who had seated herself on the rock in front of the bower, and, having placed her child at her feet, was busily engaged in devouring the remains of a roast pig.
Peterkin, looking at Jack over the edge of a monstrous potato which he happened to be devouring at the time.
Hastily devouring a few mouthfuls of tasajo, I speedily followed him, and although but a few moments had elapsed, found the party almost ready to start.
The stream of light which descended from the beginning" was propagated by fagot to fagot, until Christendom was filled with the devouring fires of faith.
This would make Him the most fearful tyrant in the universe--a Moloch devouring his own children!
They were busy devouring a dead cow and a newly-born calf, and I saw their naked bodies through such dense clouds of mosquitos that in one clap of the hands I could kill twenty or thirty.
My first thought was that I had lost all, but, drawing nearer, I discovered that Timoteo and the chief were also there, squatting on the ground, devouring the remains of my breakfast.
He had arrived before me (Scotsmen say they are always before the Englishmen) and was devouring part of a leg of mutton.
The fire, gathering strength as it goes, drives all before it, or wraps everything in its devouring flames.
Two millions of heads" she assigns as the food of the devouring guillotine--a number transcendent, even for lady rhetoric.
Kitchener's barbarous recipe for devouring oysters, and "tickled his little favourites before he ate them.
Yes, by devouring thieves, from whom cannot Ever return a satisfaction: The wild beasts had her in her swathing clothes.
My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.
THE OLD SEDAN-CHAIR "What's not destroyed by Time's devouring Hand?
Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the man at the telegraph was horticulture.
Sibyll, meanwhile, seated herself abstractedly on a heap of fagots piled in the corner, and seemed busy in framing characters on the dusty floor with the point of her tiny slipper.
