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Definition of Devoured
1. devour [v] - See also: devour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devoured
Literary usage of Devoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"However, since the lion and the bear have not aa yet devoured me, I hope God will
also deliver us from the next uncircumcised Philistine. ..."
2. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"Suppose you have a little of both ? and suppose you begin with the chicken,
because Mr. Hartright looks devoured by anxiety to carve for you. ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"... battle of S1r Bors, and of his departing, and how he met Sir Lionel taken and
beaten with thorns, and also of a maid which should have been devoured. ..."
4. Twenty Years in the Philippines by Paul Proust de La Gironière (1854)
"... or Alligators—Instances of their Ferocity- Imprudence and Death of my
Shepherd—Method of entrapping the Monster which had devoured him—We Attack and ..."
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