"Eating away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taken in war. Many a fair province had been desolated of its inhabitants, many a splendid city spoiled of its riches, in order to construct these awful halls. Unfortunately, the annual overflow of the inundation of the Nile covers the ground to the depth of a foot or two, staining and eating away the bases of the columns, and overthrowing their enormous drums and architraves. The destruction cannot be prevented, for the water infiltrates through the soil; and some day, ere long, the remaining columns will be hurled ...
— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan
... life as a whole; that her religious theories had ever been eating away and absorbing her life, so preventing her religion from interpenetrating and glorifying it; that in regard to certain facts and consequences she had been left to an ignorance which her innocence rendered profound; ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... word with a vague feeling of wonder. What was physical pain to the torture that was eating away her young life? Ill? Why, all the illness in the world put together could not cause the anguish she was suffering then—the sting of a ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... eating away, and he was brushing the crumbs off his nose by wiggling his ears, when, all of a sudden, he heard a cat crying. Oh, such a loud cry as ...
— Uncle Wiggily's Adventures • Howard R. Garis
... a first start at our new life," replied Fritz, eating away with equal gusto. "I only hope that we'll get on as favourably ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson |
