Sentence examples for eaten paper from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, it seems as if we are like Shakespeare's schoolmaster Holofernes (in Love's Labours Lost) who is said, scornfully, to have eaten paper and "drunk ink".

Jennings had a nervous habit of eating paper and a mannered way of sucking on sugar cubes.

Finally, if you are into weird behaviour by animals, you might have seen a puppy's response to being caught eating paper.

Several years later Mr. Cohn represented her when she directed her first film, "This Is My Life" (1992), in which one character is a talent agent who eats paper.

When the food runs out, guests start eating paper, drinking from water pipes and behaving very badly while a bear and a flock of sheep wander the house, and a disembodied hand enlivens proceedings (a couple of years before the Addams Family brought their version to TV).

Should you not be worried as long as you don't eat paper receipts?

She no longer compulsively licks people or herself, or eats paper.

My Tibetan terrier licked herself, licked people, and seemed obsessed with eating paper.

She will go so far as to eat paper, rather than share her age.

Even if the dog needed the salt and licked people for it, that doesn't explain why the added salt would stop the dog from eating paper or licking at herself.

His mental health issues were said to continue throughout his stay in prison, where King said Holmes would cover himself in his own feces, eat paper, lick the walls, and declare himself to be Peter Pan.