"Eat up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marvel of it all was that he did not suffer these studies, arduous as they were, to eat up his time and his mind, but he kept store of both to spare for yet another kind of enterprise no less exacting and momentous, albeit to my mind infinitely more interesting. I will freely admit that I was never other than an indifferent ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... agree. Amherst, who is the oldest officer, is under the influence of the same great person who influenced Mordaunt, so much to honor and advantage of this country. This is most certain, that we have force enough in America to eat up the French alive in Canada, Quebec, and Louisburg, if we have but skill and spirit enough to exert it properly; but of that I am ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... continues, and we wonder how long a time must elapse ere our mutineers eat up their mysterious food and are starved ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London
... Frank observed, "was a derelict when we picked her up, wasn't she? She couldn't move a foot. Well, then, we're entitled to salvage. We'll put in a bill that will eat up the whole business!" ...
— Boy Scouts in a Submarine • G. Harvey Ralphson
... every plant, and every leaf, in order to sucker it, or to pull off the buds, which grow at the joints of the leaves; and at the same time you must destroy the large green worms that are found on the tobacco, which are often as large as a man's finger, and would eat up the whole plant ...
— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz
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