Rhodes was an Oxford man and an omnivorous reader.
With respect to solid food the Seri may be deemed omnivorous though their adjustment to habitat is such that they are practically carnivorous.
Wind their way through miles of omnivorous forest to sucksucculent her breast dry.
Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis.
At twelve Huxley[20] became an omnivorous reader, and two or three years later devoured Hamilton's Logic and became deeply interested in metaphysics.
School pressure should not suppress this instinct of omnivorous reading, which at this age sometimes prompts the resolve to read encyclopedias, and even libraries, or to sample everything to be found in books at home.
It might be argued, too, that the jay of which the poet treats is no ordinary bird, but is one of those omnivorous creatures which greedily pounce upon everything coming within their predatory reach.
All stories of his being a close and omnivorous student of books, previous to his coming to Chicago, are not consistent with the facts.
Your affluent omnivorous collector, who has more of that kind of business on hand than he can perform for himself, naturally brings about him a train of satellites, who make it their business to minister to his importunate cravings.
To be omnivorous is one pole of true love: to be exclusive is the other.
Life would be a sort of demonic vortex, boiling at the centre and omnivorous at the circumference, till it finally realised the supreme vocation of vortices, to have "their centre everywhere and their circumference nowhere.
Thus a profound and omnivorous reverie overflows the mind; it devours its objects or is absorbed into them, and the mood which this active self-alienation brings with it is called the spirit of the scene, the sentiment of the landscape.
If Bastin's omnivorous throat could swallow a camel, especially a theological camel, Bickley's would strain at the smallest gnat, especially a theological gnat.
Omnivorous feeders, being partly carnivorous, as are also the jays.
You see man is an omnivorous animal, and can live in health upon either starchy or flesh foods.
I only said that man, being an omnivorous animal, can live upon an exclusive diet of meat just as he can live on the starchy foods alone.
An omnivorous reader seldom is narrow, and seldom is profound.
As an outlook upon the world she is well worth the coming; as a city she is almost monotonous, with her squat, white-washed houses sweltering in the omnivorous sunshine.
Ecclesiastics, soldiers, useless octroi guards, beggars rotten with the notion fostered by the omnivorous priesthood that mendicancy is an honorable profession, make up almost the bulk of her population of productive age.
It isomnivorous in its food habits and eats all kinds of fish, flesh, eggs, apples, berries, and is especially fond of green corn.
Theodore Roosevelt is the apostle of strenuosity, statesman, ranchman, hunter, and yet a writer upon a wide range of subjects and anomnivorous reader.
I know perfectly well my own egotism," he wrote; "I know my omnivorous lines, and must not write any less.
The announcement of Mr. Gladstone's visit to Ireland later on in the year prompted a burlesque account of what his omniscience and omnivorous thirst for information would enable him to achieve.
With his accustomed omnivorous reading, scanning every book within reach, he fell upon Bulwer Lytton's "Rienzi.
He was an omnivorous reader, and his precise knowledge on any subject was always a matter of surprise to the most intimate.
From earliest childhood I have indulged in omnivorous taste for reading, my particular likings being for travels, esthetics, metaphysical and theological subjects, and more recently for poetry and certain forms of mysticism.
I was an omnivorous reader, but my favorite reading was poetry.
Cassell's Illustrated Readings, two volumes with a mass of pictures of unequal merit, but the omnivorous collector will keep them for the sake of designs by F.
The Sparrow is an omnivorous feeder here, in Egypt, as it is at home, where nothing that grows comes amiss to it, not even the early crocuses of our gardens.
He is essentially an omnivorous animal: his food varying with each season and the locality where such food is obtained, his habitat varies accordingly.
The sacred flame may be kindled in the breast by desultory and omnivorous reading, but the light emitted is as uncertain as that of a wandering marsh-fire--it wants focussing to be of any use to its possessor or his species.
Being an almost omnivorous fish and tenacious of life, it seems to recommend itself particularly for acclimatization in other tropical countries; and specimens kept in captivity become as tame as carps.
We soon find Gluck producing operas at the rapid rate necessitated by the omnivorous taste of the Italian public in those days.
That was enough, and there was a turn of the wheel against the omnivorous state in favor of several new forms of pluralism.
The omnivorous readers of from four to eight papers coincide roughly with the twenty-five percent who rated themselves at more than fifteen minutes.
