"Eating away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mean anything, they mean that,' he replied. 'Something deadly is eating away at his vitals, and sapping the very foundations of his life. You see, he can tell ...
— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking
... rising every minute, when she suddenly recollected breakfast! She hurried in. As she expected, her aunt was at the table; but to her surprise, and not at all to her gratification, there was Mr. Van Brunt at the other end of it, eating away, very much at home indeed. In silent dismay, Ellen drew her chair to the ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... gnaw at the cabbage and, as he had very good teeth for gnawing—almost as good as Sammy Littletail's—he soon had quite a hole made. But he kept on gnawing and eating away, so fine did it taste, until, in a little while if he hadn't eaten a hole right into the cabbage and he found himself inside, just like the mousie in ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
... safe," Bobby protested. "If it hasn't gone already, it will soon in this blow, for the sea is eating away the ice floe on all sides. Don't worry, Jimmy. We'll make out, igloo or no igloo. Look at the dogs. They don't have igloos ever. But I'm weak with hunger. I've got to eat a biscuit before ...
— Bobby of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace
... the sea-level, and composed of alluvial deposit, they are portions of the mainland detached from it, partly by the action of the river itself, and partly by the encroachment of the ocean. In fact the sea is eating away the land much faster than the river can build it up. The great island of Marajo was originally a continuation of the Valley of the Amazons, and is identical with it in every detail of its geological structure. My investigation of the island itself, in connection with the coast and ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... well for a first start at our new life," replied Fritz, eating away with equal gusto. "I only hope that we'll get ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson |
