Word: devouring
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...certain fish, by accurate sharpshooting with drops of water, is able to knock flies from overhanging branches and devour them in the water...
...added once more to the rapidly growing library of his literary travesties. In his latest book, entitled "Winsome Winnie," the great American humorist presents a series of new Nonsense Novels which seem destined further to enhance his popularity with that very large sphere of the public who avidly devour everything signed by his magic name...
...great syndicate to an acid test. The returns will tell the story of a democracy in which one man can lead millions through the great power of his wealth, or they will tell an altogether different story. They will reveal that people will buy red ink with enthusiasm, devour the Sunday scandal supplement with gusto, and chuckle gleefully over the comic section but, having nibbled the lurid bait they will shy from the hook...
Because the gentle, meek tailor, Androcles, has drawn the thorn from the lion's paw in the jungle, said beast refuses to devour said tailor in the arena. That is the core of the entertainment. The meat is found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar
...literature courses most men do not read literature; they read about literature. They take their general point of view from the instructor's lecture; and before the examinations they devour histories of literature, and learn the general nature of the work they are supposed to have read. In many cases, too, the examinations are such that this sort of information will enable one to obtain a good mark. Thus it is not a definite and personal knowledge and appreciation of literature which is the rule, but a vague and second-hand idea of its nature...