Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a Harpy that devours everything.
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
I have the greatest job in the world, and my life revolves around my love for food - particularly devouring hot dogs.
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
