Sentence examples for first devoured from inspiring English sources

It was the first time I had reconnected with the Ingalls family since I first devoured the books myself as a kid.

When I first devoured the novel, after its publication in 1980, I grew increasingly melancholy — never again would I have the pleasure of reading it fresh.

When I first devoured the novel, after its publication in 1980, I grew increasingly melancholy never again would I have the pleasure of reading it fresh.

The ones not written for children but that I first devoured when I was young: Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh, Virago classics like Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and Antonia White's Frost in May, Stevie Smith and ee cummings, all of Douglas Adams.

Some art consumes slices of life; the Mahler Sixth devours life whole.

What she is sure about is the impatience that led her to ignore the Nancy Drew books the rest of the third graders devoured her first season in America -- "Once you've read one Nancy Drew, you've read them all" -- and sneak to the science shelf for a dose of Isaac Asimov.

At first, she devoured books on marriage savers, such as The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver.

(Tip: If you're leaving your infant with a sitter for the first time, don't watch "March of the Penguins," a film in which babies mislaid for even a second are devoured by walruses).

His 1932 illustration for "The Vanguard to the Neptune" in Wonder Stories Quarterly shows two men watching in horror while a third is devoured by an enormous red flower that suggests an extremely happy Venus Flytrap.

At first Teichmann devours his ration of bread, but as his strength ebbs he learns, like the others, to make a crust of bread into a seven-course meal.

Thrust enough, according to InsideLine.com, for the same Racing Yellow car that I drove to reach 60 m.p.h. in just 3.9 seconds and devour the quarter-mile in 12 seconds at 116.5 m.p.h.