The excessive appetite for pigeons that had overcome her suddenly, and the way she had devoured them, like an animal she was doomed, for sure, and everyone knew it, everyone in Bugues, the village, the whole world knew it.

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My friends devoured them, and my own feeling of satisfaction was incredible.

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It's better to cannibalize yourself than to have your business devoured by someone else, so Cisco watches its competitors and either beats them or buys them.

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George W. Bush freed 50 million Muslims from tyranny and gave them a chance to make better lives even as the rigors of doing so devoured his presidency all the while launching, for Africa, the most generously funded program for AIDS prevention and treatment in history.

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