"Self-consuming" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the door sat self-consuming Care, Day and night keeping wary watch and ward For fear lest Force or Fraud should unaware Break in, and spoil the ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall
... worn to a shadow with self-consuming anguish, eager to find some lowly retreat, where she could breath out her soul in peace, and terrified at the frantic behaviour of Renaldo, communicated to Fathom her desire of removing, and begged ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett |
