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  • Sculptured panels, with conventional motives, peacocks, eagles devouring hares, peacocks drinking from a cup on a tall pillar, are let into both exterior and interior walls, as are roundels of precious marbles, sawn from columns of porphyry, serpentine, verd antique, &c. The adoption of veneer for decoration prohibited any deep cutting, and almost all the sculpture is shallow.
  • Ten minutes later, she sat at a picnic table, devouring the crispy-sweet treats.
  • It took every ounce of her willpower to keep from devouring his body with her eyes.
  • He leaned forward, picked up his fork and began devouring his supper without further comment.
  • Starting from the assertion of Moses that God is " a devouring fire " (Deut.
 
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