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• The Revolution devours its own children.
  • Vallankumous syö omat lapsensa.
• The fire was devouring the building.
• If ye refuse[...]ye shall be devoured with the sword.
• Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[...]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
• She intended to devour the book.
• Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
• After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.