But could their heartless voracity stifle his (Goldthred's) sensibilities, or prevent his food tasting like leather, his tea like camomiles?
A couple of Cornets are already hard at work, with the voracity of youth just done growing in length but not breadth.
The Skuas, called also Skua Gulls, are sufficiently distinguished from the true Gulls by their strong hooked bills and talons, and by the habits of daring and voracity founded on these characters.
Like the inland Indians, they can bear hunger for an amazing length of time, and afterwards gorge themselves with more than brutal voracity without suffering inconvenience by it.
Indeed the voracity of this bird, which, doubtless, suggested the name cormoranus, has become so proverbial, that a man of large appetite is often likened to a cormorant.
Such being the voracity of the inhabitants, and so continual the slaughters of innumerable oxen, you will agree with me that Paraguay may be called the devouring grave, as well as the seminary of cattle.
Numerous accounts have been given of the voracity of the pike.
The voracity with which these trout seize the Sandhoppers and Shrimps upon which they are fed is a perfect revelation.
From this time onwards, hervoracity knew no bounds.
She would still take with confident voracity large roach and small; but she very reluctantly took a halting, languid fish like those that had pricked her so horribly that morning.
An eager interchange from bottom to surface goes on; for when the upper layer is satiated, it likes to enjoy its feeling of well-being in peace, until voracity once more makes them all rivals.
She ate and drank with seemly self-restraint, however; it would have lowered her much in her own estimation if she had showed any sign of the voracity she felt.
I should say that it resembles the voracity of the caterpillar.
These cases protect the larvae against the voracity of their enemies.
Nothing which lives in the water is safe against the voracity of the Dytiscus.
And so the mother is obliged to be incessantly defending her eggs against the voracityof the workers, and to be constantly on her guard, so as to be ready to drive away these marauders from cells newly filled.
Fan led Tom to the buffet and offered him some little cakes, to which he was very partial, and which he proceeded to swallow with so admirable a pretence of voracity that the bystanders burst out laughing.
From his starved appearance, and from the voracity with which he devoured the food set before him, it was evident that he had had nothing to eat for some days.
The voracity remains, but the swards and cribs are far, far away.
He has clear memories of a voracity which created wide vacuum in sundry greenswards, and played havoc with corn cribs manifold.
Evidently," said Altamont, "this voracityis peculiar to the inhabitants of cold countries!
They invaded the prefecture, and did exceeding damage, one of their feats of voracity being so extraordinary as to deserve mention.
With some of them this voracity went so far that we had to chain them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voracity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
