"Chew up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "it is very fashionable to go big-game shooting nowadays, and an African lion may yet chew up a ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... knots an hour; for, try as he might, Amos could get no more out of the engine. "She's a divil to chew up coal," he explained; "we may have ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... reaches the ten-pound weight and makes it jump is not perceptible. You would think the man had pretty good molars that should gnaw a spike like a stick of candy, but a bottle of innocent-looking hydrogen-gas will chew up a piece of bar-iron as though ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard
... of the clouds. They seem to lead about the powerful horse, the cloud, to make it rain; they milk the thundering, unceasing spring. Mighty they are, powerful, of beautiful splendor, strong in themselves like mountains, yet swiftly gliding along;—you chew up forests, like wild elephants, when you have assumed your powers among the red flames. Like lions they roar, the wise Maruts, they are handsome like gazelles, the all-knowing. By night with their spotted rain-clouds and with their spears—lightnings—they ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... must chew up those old stubs, and dry and sell them for smoking-tobacco. Therefore, give your custom to other than ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain |
