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They devoured every sprig of foliage in the town and surrounding countryside.
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An enthralling collection; the stories are so tantalizing that they are best devoured all at once.
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But they have been devoured year after year by an eight-forked serpent and now the time approaches for this girl to be devoured.
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The pious priests withdrew their hands from it, while gluttonous priests took and devoured it.
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Martin's prose is concise but pithy, begging to be devoured over and over again.
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The shaft and its surroundings had to be freed from sand and rubble, which had devoured the area due time.
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She and her son are devoured by zombies while the group tries to get through a crowd of them outside.
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And can we imagine what might have befallen those two innocent girls who were devoured by the criminals entire night and then hanged to death?
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Every day an eagle swooped on him and devoured the lobes of his liver, which grew by night.
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The planet was devoured by a huge flood, due to the carelessness of a servant, who left the water running to one of the bathtubs.
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