According to reports, each Asian hornet can devour up to 50 honey bees a day, with swarms able to decimate bee colonies in just a few hours.
"The jaws of darkness do devour it up: so quick bright things come to confusion," read another.
And the fowls of the air also devour some up, and the ginger cat in her modesty covers some with earth and they die.
Magical sets were devoured by audiences up to 100,000 strong, singing in unison.
Hardwicke can't get a performance out of her; Valerie comes across as a ninny, and we don't care if she is devoured or winds up with one of the young men or spends all eternity rolling in the snow with the werewolf.
The children devoured the rolled-up slices standing between the inner and outer doors of the unit, trying to stay out of the wind.
We'd chop up and devour the turkey, then reconvene in the living room to watch some people get chopped up or devoured.
The next morning, I woke up and devoured them before I even made coffee.
Her father, handsome and philandering, was someone she longed to please; yet in 1974 an enormous tableau in plaster and latex, "The Destruction of the Father", showed huge mammary forms round a table in a red-glowing cave on which the hated paterfamilias was torn up and devoured.Even the gentle art of tapestry itself was transmuted into violence.
Back in the function room, Dan announces that there is a huge cake lovingly baked for the cabaret by a group of HIV-positive Nigerian women, but by the time I get past the crowds of activists joining in the Dabke dancing display by Palestinian and Lebanese women, it's been cut up and devoured.
