"Consume" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us," exactly express his program. To make life one long carnival, to hunt game and to witness comedies and the antics of buffoons, to hear marvellous tales of the new world and voluptuous verses of the humanists and of the great Ariosto, to enjoy music and to consume the most delicate viands and the most delicious wines—this was what he lived for. Free and generous with money, he prodigally wasted the revenues of three pontificates. Spending no less than 6000 ducats a month on cards and ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith
... is wrong remove, Whate'er is dark illume; Search, try, and purge me, but in love, Lest Thou Thy dust consume. ...
— Religion in Earnest - A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York • John Lyth
... i.e. uniformity in every part, may be illustrated by what may be considered as the inexhaustible nature of the current when producing particular effects; for these effects depend upon transfer only, and do not consume the power. Thus a current which will heat one inch of platina wire will heat a hundred inches (853. note). If a current be sustained in a constant state, it will decompose the fluid in one voltameter only, or in twenty others ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... withe a man that wolde or durst call them theues. Boni. It is true there are many wolde take it euyll as you saye in dede. Bea. And nowe it is commyn to that poynt that thoughe there are many vnthryftes and spedals whiche consume theyr substaunce at the ||wyne and vpon harlottes, and yet so wyllynge to continewe openly that all the worlde wonders at them, yet they wyll be offended and take peper in the noose yf a man shulde call them ruffyans or baudy knaues. Boni. Suche fellowes thynke they deserue prayse for the thynge, ...
— Two Dyaloges (c. 1549) • Desiderius Erasmus
... for freedom.—One day in the desert, Moses heard from a passing caravan that old Rameses II was dead. Like a flame that burned but did not consume the thought came to him: "Now is your chance! The king and his officers will not know about you. Go back to Egypt and lead your kinsmen out to freedom. This is God's call and ...
— Hebrew Life and Times • Harold B. Hunting
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