...devorar, to devour, absorb, consume... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... The Anarchist is indifferent to acknowledgedappreciation; the needs of the Cause absorb his whole interest, andto these he devotes his energy and abilities...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...Who knows but by lifelong fellowship with it Imay absorb something of its virtue? Summer and winter...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
... "Once more, for the spectacle to absorb us, there is no need of progress...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...Here, on their mother's back, the youngsters stretch their limbsdelightedly, saturate themselves with heat, take in reserves ofmotor-power, absorb energy...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Did they con the first lessonof safety in the dark chamber of the egg,or absorb it with the warmth of thebrooding breast that gave them life?...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...My reply is: Try what a hot knife will do passed over theskin, with sand or sawdust thrown on to absorb the fat as itmelts off...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...What mental characteristics led the Japanese a thousand years ago so to absorb the Chinese civilization...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
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Phagocytes: cells that absorb food (phagein = to eat)...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...The lymphatics that absorb from the gut and pour into the blood-stream themilky food-fluid formed by digestion are distinguished by the special name of“chyle-vessels...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...They are made of respectablemetal which will stand a good deal of calm hammering, and absorb a considerablequantity of virtuous moisture...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...She was a woman of liberal opinions, whodid not let the duties of her position entirely absorb her...
Estelle M. Hurll 「Correggio」
...But it does not absorb the still more rapid waves,or oscillations which manifest themselves as radio-activity...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...The most commonly acceptedtheory is that they are caused by the pressure of descending masses ofvapour having a reduced temperature, which absorb the light and preventit reaching us...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...The inside of the tube must absorb extraneous light, andshould therefore be coloured a dull black; and stops of varying radiusshould be placed along its length with the same object...
Richard A. Proctor 「Half-hours with the Telescope」
...The waves thus formed absorb the effect of the mutualperturbations, and prevent an accumulation which would be dangerous tothe persistence of the whole...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...Put another kind of test ofheat beyond it and it appears; coat the air-thermometer with abit of black cloth, and that will absorb heat and reveal it...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
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