Word: devours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trollope knew that even in their most idealistic moments the best men and women could be self-seeking - not merely be cause they were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...
...love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs only a few weeks...
...buzz bomb or a piloted plane raid somewhere every five minutes. The next day in a jeep we saw the tail flame on one robomb overhead suddenly go out and then the big frame of the bomb dove down on us in perfect silence, an inhuman Moloch coming to devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced by the barmaid and given free drinks of cognac...
...watching to devour...
...meantime, has been secreting an acid digestive juice in large quantities from great glands which fill all of its five arms. This fluid acts as an "anesthetic" on the muscles of the oyster, rendering them flabby and useless, after which it becomes an easy matter for the starfish to devour its prey...