voracity

How to use voracity in a sentence

Parisian women—and Caroline is one—are very vain, and as for their voracity—don't speak of it.

Fenceviewer I. has suffered the first check in her career of rapacity, voracity and capacity.

And esteem it to be a Championlike action if one can but make the t'other dead drunk by his voracity of sucking in most.

"Perhaps the politeness may equal the voracity," said the fat lady, who was almost boiling over with wrath.

It principally subsists on fish, but such is its voracity, that it seizes almost every thing that comes within its reach.

His eyes had a strained, hunted look, and even his appetite had lost something of its voracity—a sure sign of trouble.

Just then Borelle himself entered, carrying a bag upon which Margot fell with all the voracity of a young tigress.

He fairly overwhelmed Little Teacher by his voracity for learning and a perseverance that vanquished all obstacles.

DAVID DUNNEBELLE KANARIS MANIATES

But of this the voracity of time, assisted by the hands of the Turks, has left nothing but a few foundations remaining.

It requires a few hours in which to 146 regain its equilibrium, and at the same time its former activity and voracity.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985