Sentence examples for devoured me from inspiring English sources

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"It has devoured me, as you can see," he says.

"By the time I got back to my camera," Karsh later recalled, "he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me".

It devoured me.

His lip began to quiver, I quickly acquiesced, the guilt of giving him a future of shared Christmases and no siblings devoured me; the least I could do was fulfill a simple scooter request.

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Will he devour me? -- and they shook him off.

This is not saying much because the most hallowed of all courses usually devours me whole.

I needed stronger hits to keep the wound inside from rising up and devouring me.

By 1817, when he wrote his first letters to Pietro Giordani — a freethinking ex-monk who was his earliest friend and patron — Leopardi was already complaining of "the stubborn, black, horrendous, barbarous melancholy that wears away and devours me".

When the writer Maria Edgeworth read Milton's lines about Hell ("And in the lowest deep a lower deep / Still threatening to devour me opens wide"), she objected: How could the lowest deep open into a lower deep?

Mikhael knew that Falciani was married, but she sensed that he was unhappy in his marriage, and he looked at her, she later said, as if he could "devour me with his eyes".

"Sometimes I feel the past will eat me alive, will devour me in the same way that the now abundantly overgrown cedar bush is devouring the pioneer rail fences on which, as children, we used to stand in order to watch the Mexicans work.

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