book-devouring

"No reading before breakfast, nor by firelight, nor by lamp-light, nor between daylight and dark," -- an indispensable rule for such book-devouring children as we were.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

In every rank of life the book-devouring vice abounds; but chiefly among women, girls, and boys; men finding in the newspapers their daily pabulum.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

I am a student, a hard-working, book-devouring, never-wearied student, who burns her midnight oil, and drinks the strong bohea, to keep her awake during the long hours of toil, like any Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate.

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. P. Hampson

Gwendolen's exalted life made a striking part of the sisters 'romance, the book-devouring Isabel throwing in a corsair or two to make an adventure that might end well.

Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

Frederic Mitterrand delivered another Francoslap to Google yesterday, threatening to eject the book-devouring search giant from the effort to digitise the French National Library.

The Register 2010

Frederic Mitterrand delivered another Francoslap to Google yesterday, threatening to eject the book-devouring search giant from the effort to digitise the French National Library.

The Register 2010