Fearful residents scattered across the province, watching from afar as the fire – a "multi-headed monster", in the words of the mayor – tore a path of destruction through the city, consuming more than 2,500 homes, about 10% of the structures in the city.
As the parasite overruns the city, consuming the Prophet of Mercy in the process, the Prophet of Truth orders Tartarus to take Keyes, Johnson, and Guilty Spark to Halo's control room and activate the ring.
The city is consuming beyond the planet's means, and its appetite is growing by the day.
Lake Elizabeth had dried into a mudflat, and by July the city was consuming more water than was flowing into the storage reservoirs," writes Les Standiford in "Water to the Angels".
By 1879, householders in the eastern cities were consuming two thirds of a ton (601 kg) of ice a year, being charged 40 cents ($9.30) per 100 pounds (45 kg); 1,500 wagons were needed just to deliver ice to consumers in New York.
Ice houses were also built in the major ice consuming cities to hold the imported ice before final sale and consumption, where they were often termed depots.
For the majority of services that can't be delivered virtually, like Doctor on Demand, the act of rolling out city by city is expensive and time consuming.
He felt as if he were consuming the city, eating it up.
Covered with soot and dust, their skin is scorched and bloody, their hair, fried, stands on end, and ripped pieces of clothing hang off their bodies as they attempt to escape the fires consuming the city.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukAS JAPANESE troops advanced on the Chinese capital of Nanjing in 1937, Zhou Fohai, a senior official in the Chinese government, wrote in his diary of the panic and fear consuming the city.
As Mr. Castro prepared to take the stage on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., to give the biggest speech of his life — the first Latino to give the keynote address in the convention's history — it was hard to know what was consuming this city more: Mr. Castro's rising political cachet, or the vote on his pre-K program.
