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"Voraciously" Quotes from Famous Books

... somehow he managed to move to the washbasin, and afterwards to hobble to the table. He let himself down by slow and painful degrees into a chair, swore that he'd lie on the track and let a train run over him before he would sit again on the back of a horse, and began to eat voraciously. ...

— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... now, sat down and fell to. She sat opposite him, her hands in her lap. He used his knife in preference to his fork, leaping the blade high, packing the food firmly upon it with fork or fingers, then thrusting it into his mouth. He ate voraciously, smacking his lips, breathing hard, now and then eructing ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... her of almost the exact quantity which I expected she would repose in me, and declaimed with eloquence and effect against those suspicious beauties who always regard us honest fellows as so many naughty goblins; who, like the Ethiopian monster, voraciously devour every Virgin-Andromeda they meet. But as I tell you, I did it modestly. I kept on my guard, watched the moment to press forward or to retreat; and wielded my weapons with ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... of the house, the wide kitchen, where the cooking was done. Wanamee and Mawha were in a discussion, as often happened. Pani sat with a great wooden platter on his knees, eating voraciously. Rose realized suddenly that she was hungry, and the smell of the broiling ...

— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... contrition for his violence, desired his hasty words to be forgotten, and he ate voraciously, keeping his head lowered. ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... Between himself and his parents there was little sympathy and understanding. He saw them at meals, and fled from the table to his own room, where he read voraciously. ...

— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason

Words linked to "Voraciously" : voracious