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Instead, they tend to plunder the productive sectors, and when the money is gone, they are either
devoured
by the crises they created or forced to change course to survive.
The Minotaur was none other than the US trade deficit, which
devoured
increasing quantities of the world’s net exports.
It will be difficult for the Fed and other central banks to “dismount” from the QE programs without being
devoured.
The children
devoured
with delight.
Did he want to hurt such a little darling, who was as soft as silk, so tender that he could have
devoured
her?
It made him mad! he clenched his hands, he could have
devoured
that man in one of those impulses to kill in which he saw everything red.
Ladders, seven metres in length, followed one another, some still firm, others shaky, yielding and almost broken; the steps were narrow and green, so rotten that one seemed to walk in moss; and as one went down the heat grew suffocating, :he heat of an oven proceeding from the air-shaft which was, fortunately, not very active now the strike was on, or when the furnace
devoured
its five thousand kilograms of coal a day, one could not have risked oneself here without scorching one's hair.
He showed the whole family used up at the mine,
devoured
by the Company, hungrier than ever after a hundred years of work; and contrasting with the Maheus he pointed to the big bellies of the directors sweating gold, a whole band of shareholders, going on for a century like kept women, doing nothing but enjoy with their bodies.
She was certainly not there, but he still saw Chaval, affecting to jeer, shrugging his shoulders, but
devoured
by jealousy and ready to sell himself for a little of this popularity.
At the first words he felt that he was vain, and was
devoured
by passionate jealousy.
The association, after having conquered the workers of the whole world, in an outburst of propaganda which had left the middle class still shuddering, was now being
devoured
and slowly destroyed by an internal struggle between vanities and ambitions.
It was a blind force which constantly
devoured
itself.
Zacharie on the contrary, lived for nothing else; he would have
devoured
the soil to get back his sister.
He was
devoured
by insomnia, and watched over her with fixed eyes and forehead between his hands.
The cage was there; they got into it and sank,
devoured
by the gulf.
If any class must be devoured, would not the people, still new and full of life, devour the middle class, exhausted by enjoyment?
Does this mean I'll wake up half
devoured
one fine day?""I'm awfully fond of you, Conseil my friend, but not enough to eat you when there's better food around."
Then the pigeon and ringdove were
devoured
to the bones and declared excellent.
However, I'm opposed to being devoured, even in all decency, so I'll keep on my guard, especially since the Nautilus's commander seems to be taking no precautions.
Carried by the Ganges to the high seas, these were deceased Indian villagers who hadn't been fully
devoured
by vultures, the only morticians in these parts.
His eyes
devoured
it.
It couldn't tear itself away from the setting of this last struggle, from this sea that had
devoured
one of its own!
She devoured, without skipping a word, all the accounts of first nights, races, and soirees, took interest in the debut of a singer, in the opening of a new shop.
Then it was, like a red bush in the cinders, slowly
devoured.
If she had spoken seriously, it was very ridiculous, he thought, even odious; for he had no reason to hate the good Charles, not being what is called
devoured
by jealousy; and on this subject Emma had taken a great vow that he did not think in the best of taste.
Madame Homais was very fond of these small, heavy turban-shaped loaves, that are eaten in Lent with salt butter; a last vestige of Gothic food that goes back, perhaps, to the time of the Crusades, and with which the robust Normans gorged themselves of yore, fancying they saw on the table, in the light of the yellow torches, between tankards of hippocras and huge boars' heads, the heads of Saracens to be
devoured.
A secret ambition
devoured
him.
He
devoured
them to the very last, ransacked every corner, all the furniture, all the drawers, behind the walls, sobbing, crying aloud, distraught, mad.
On one occasion, in the midst of his new-found piety, after Julien had been studying divinity for two years, he was betrayed by a sudden blaze of the fire that
devoured
his spirit.
Their joy was thenceforward of a far higher nature, the flame that
devoured
them was more intense.
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