At the time, there was a ferocious dragon in the river and a fierce tiger in the mountain in Yixing, which often injured and devoured people.
The wicked Crane took the fish, one by one, to a lonely spot nearby, where he devoured them.
An evil beast has devoured him!
" I'd just returned from Tehran and devoured the review of Nafisi's new book, "Things I've Been Silent About: Memories.
However, the cat crept behind the town wall to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
The wolf devoured it, but was not satisfied with one; he wanted the other as well, and went to get it.
When I think that the wild beasts have devoured her, I know not how to contain myself for sorrow; many a time I console myself with the hope that she is still alive, and may have hidden herself in a cave, or has found shelter with compassionate people.
" said his mother "Go to confession at once, and you'll see what the priest has to say to you" The boy went to confession "Stealing is a sin," said the priest, "unless you steal from thieves" The boy went to the woods and found thieves He knocked at their door and got himself hired as a servant "We steal," explained the thieves, "but we're not committing a sin, because we rob the tax collectors" One night when the thieves had gone out to rob a tax collector, the boy led the best mule
I also admired the way they purchased clothes selectively, carried themselves confidently and devoured life every chance they got.
Wasps, the natural enemies of worms, were drawn by the odour to the plant where they either devoured the worm or injected it with eggs that later killed it.
" "The women, sire," said the bird, "were the sisters of the Sultana, who were devoured with jealousy at the honour you had done her, and in order to revenge themselves invented this story.
They went past small villages and burgeoning housing developments, past abandoned apple orchards, back to where trees and brush have devoured old homesteads.
In the end, he is destroyed by his own strength, devoured by his own hunger, impoverished by his own wealth.
My dismay was great, for it seemed to me that to be buried alive was even a worse fate than to be devoured by cannibals, nevertheless there was no escape.
He now knew that the lady who said she was the daughter of an Indian king was an ogress, who lived in desolate places, and who by a thousand wiles surprised and devoured passers-by.
The Mice, being continually devoured, kept themselves close in their holes.
The wolf devoured it, but was not satisfied with one.
Then the dog seized it, ran into a corner, and devoured it.
" The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
After two days, worn out with running about and hunger, he fell asleep; the bird of prey came, and seized one of the chickens, and as the others were tied fast to it, it carried them all off together, perched itself on a tree, and devoured them.
