The smell of the broiling fish seemed to have collected them, and sharpening their voracious appetites, made them desperate.
Now for supper, for this mountain air gives me a voracious appetite.
Happy the mortal who has traced effects To their first cause, cast fear beneath his feet, And death and roaring hell's voracious fires!
They no refinement knew Of laws or manners civilized, to yoke The steer, with forecast provident to store The hoarded grain, or manage what they had, But browsed like beasts upon the leafy boughs, Or fed voracious on their hunted prey.
Voracious and formidable carnivorous animals waged a bloody war on the inoffensive herds.
That voracious Cæsar operated on a large scale; he spent in four months, for his suppers, a little more than five millions sterling.
Homer tells us that a royal culinary artist placed before Ajax and his voracious companions in arms a whole bullock roasted.
What must have been the cost of the seven thousand birds which the brother of Vitellius served to the voracious emperor!
It often reaches a length of twenty feet, or even more, and is so savage and voracious that it has sometimes been called the wolf of the sea.
These savage and voracious creatures are found in all oceans, the larger ones wandering very widely, while the smaller ones are restricted to limited parts of the sea.
The tiger-beetles are so called because they are such fierce and voracious insects, spending most of their time in chasing and devouring other insects.
With such a voracious appetite, it is not surprising that the fish grows very fast, and for a long time it increases in weight at the rate of about four pounds in every year.
A few individuals of this voracious tribe, unfortunately transported to Rochelle, have set to work to eat up the place, and already more than one edifice trembles upon timbers which are only externally sound, and at the core are rotten.
The voracious crab held on, not liking to lose his prey, till he found himself borne upwards from the ground, and in unpleasant propinquity to the frigate bird's sharp beak.
But they had watchful enemies in the sea looking for them; the water swarmed with sharks, and several, unable to defend themselves, were caught by the voracious monsters.
The former sometimes becomes thirty-six feet long, and is the most voracious and dangerous species known.
A voracious bird--in allusion to Cleon's rapacity and to his loquacity in the Assembly.
The Harpies, to whom the two voracious poets are also compared, were monsters with the face of a woman, the body of a vulture and hooked beak and claws.
Even the voracious and ubiquitous Colorado Beetle manifests no taste for this plant, although it has had abundant opportunity to test its edible qualities.
Everything seems fond of the Peanut after it is made, and if the planter escapes the insect enemies in the summer, the exemption is more than offset by the numerous and voracious depredators of the fall and winter.
Some big dogfish also passed by, a voracious species of shark if there ever was one.
While I was contemplating this inert mass, suddenly a dozen of these voracious melanoptera appeared around our longboat; but, paying no attention to us, they pounced on the corpse and quarreled over every scrap of it.
She had missed the open window, the four-foot drop to the floor, and a neighboring aquarium stocked with voracious fish: surely the gods of pollywogs were kind to me.
My appetite still continues keen enough; and what I consider as a symptom of radical health, I have a voracious delight in raw summer fruit, of which I was less eager a few years ago[1095].
Pupils and teacher can get plenty of good healthy entertainment out of the behavior of these awkward and voracious little mask-wearers.
The chub is the king of the small brooks, being often the largest and most voracious fish found in such streams.
The voracious shark saw the tempting bait, and made a dash at it.
Truly thankful did he feel that he had not trusted himself voluntarily within the power of their voracious jaws.
Had there been but a single line to hold the voracious monster in check, it would have been but little use, so violent was the struggle, and so desperately sudden was the strain.
The voracious monster of the deep strikes for the two boys, but its unwieldy body not answering its helm with the swiftness of an ordinary fish, it shoots fairly into the ripped-up sack, in which it gets its huge maws entangled.
As he lies there sprawling on his six spider-like legs, we may now easily test the skill of his trap, and gain some idea of his voracious personality.
Pike and perch can live together, because the natural defences of the perch prevent the pike from exterminating the race, voracious as the enemy is.
Basse, the, a voracious enemy of other fish, 325 Bellani, M.
