"Voracious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Hardcastle, the servants and men-at-arms beyond. Porridge and broth and very small ale were the fare, and salted meat would be for supper, and as Grisell knew but too well already, her own retainers were grumbling at the voracious appetites of the men-at-arms as much as did their unwilling guests at the plainness ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... of various kinds allure the taste, Of choicest sort and savour, rich repast! Delicious wines the attending herald brought; The gold gave lustre to the purple draught. Lured with the vapour of the fragrant feast, In rush'd the suitors with voracious haste; Marshall'd in order due, to each a sewer Presents, to bathe his hands, a radiant ewer. Luxurious then they feast. Observant round Gay stripling youths the brimming goblets crown'd. The rage ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope
... at Malaga I have not yet been able to obtain a perusal of; it will therefore perhaps suffice for the present to say that in one of them the Government was stigmatized as being 'voraz de pesetas' (voracious of pesetas), and the Catholic religion termed 'un sistema del mas grosero fanatismo' (a system of the grossest fanaticism). It was well for the writer of this trash that the Government were at the time alarmed at the step which ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... had entire France to divide like a cake between these cormorants, whose voracious appetites ...
— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau
... fish hovers In a pond surrounded by grass. A tree leans against the sky—burned and bent. Yes... the family sits at a large table, Where they peck with their forks from the plates. Gradually they become sleepy, heavy and silent. The sun licks the ground with its hot, poisonous, Voracious mouth, like a dog—a filthy enemy. Bums suddenly collapse without a trace. A coachman looks with concern at a nag Which, torn open, cries in the gutter. Three children ...
— The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein
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