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Meanings of devour books in English

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Usage of devour books in English
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It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books.
Alas, Babylon
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My teenage boys, who devour books by the stackfull, grew up reading both dreck and classics.
Wired
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When I was young, I used to camp out in my room in the smallest of towns in northwest Indiana and devour books.
The Irish Times
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Now the Russians who read about the Proletariat were very much like the people who remain at home and devour books of travel.
Russia
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Instead, he devours books, page by page, becoming instantly smarter with every chewed word.
The Irish Times
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He devours books and magazines, retains what he reads and memorizes as never before.
The Unfolding Life / A Study of Development with Reference to Re...
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I began devouring books on Tasmania's wilderness and the history of its wild West Coast.
Reuters
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This appreciation Mary Adams possessed by inheritance from her student father who devoured books with an insatiate hunger.
The Foolish Virgin
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Godwin devoured books, and had a remarkable faculty for gaining solid information on any subject that took his fancy.
Born in Exile
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Even his own father had not understood this son, who devoured books as ravenously as his dogs devoured salmon.
The Gun-Brand
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He devoured books from his local East End libraries - Jack London, Dickens, Emile Zola, Mark Twain, Pushkin and Dostoevsky.
The Guardian
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She devours books like Sue Macy's Wheels of Change, which charts the role that cycling has played in the women's rights movement.
The Guardian
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She enjoyed reading like nothing else and devoured books at an astonishing rate, not that, Norman apart, there was anyone to be astonished.
The Uncommon Reader
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Where is the happiness of devouring books with no attempt to profit by them, except in the temporary pleasure of satisfying an appetite?
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
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She, too, devoured books, but she did so many other things besides that people forgot the idiosyncrasy, or were willing to overlook it.
The Californians
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Because I had tons of things to take care of, including spending a lot of my free time devouring books in the school library.
Kafka on the Shore
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