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Meanings of devour element in English

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Usage of devour element in English
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Subsequently this public convenience fell a prey to the devouring element.
Thirty Years in the Itinerancy
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The Doemville Academy, mysteriously fired, first fell a victim to the devouring element.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales / With Condensed Novels...
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One naturally pictures the beasts as fleeing wildly, nostrils distended, before the devouring element.
The Land of Footprints
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A pig missing; supposed to have "fallen a prey to the devouring element."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Those who abandon their houses on fire, silently give up their claims to the devouring element.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 7 / Being se...
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I felt that I was in the presence of a misery that was like a devouring element.
The Garden of Allah
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It was her house, and she would have to be responsible for it against the devouring elements.
The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
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On the 19th of September their home was wrapped in devouring elements of flame, being almost entirely consumed.
Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
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Farmers were again in homes which they had built upon the site of those destroyed by the devouring element.
Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
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Also, in A.H. 886, when the building was consumed by lightning, the Hujrah was spared by the devouring element.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
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Some, again, are poets, like (painful results of a devouring element) and (expressive sounds, and true value).
Chatterbox, 1906
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It was hard indeed to believe that it could succumb to the devouring element, so solid and unconsumable it looked.
The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London
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My brethren, it was a fearful, yet a glorious sight to see that vast pile wrapped in the devouring element!
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
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At length the devouring element burst through all control, and rushed up the fore-hatchway, rising triumphantly as high as the foreyard.
From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure
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No words can describe, no pencil paint, the look of terror when the settler beholds advancing towards him the devouring element.
The Story of Garfield / Farm-boy, Soldier, and President
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Almost before it again rose to the surface we were compelled by the devouring element behind us to leap on to it.
Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor