Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Devour
Devour me as an adversary.
—John Bunyan
Devoured it like a ravenous wolf that had been starving a fortnight in the snow.
—Daniel Defoe
As scorching heat the mountain snow devours,
As thirsty earth drinks up the falling show’rs,
Ev’n so the grave’s insatiable jaws
Those rebels swallow who infringe His laws.
—George Sandys