| 1. | Grim as voracious wolves, that seek the spring. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 3. | I saw him open his mouth wide--it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect, as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 4. | The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | I had given her, at the time of her marriage, a hint of how matters had gone, yet without any details, which now she was voracious to hear. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |