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  • I will never give money to that land-eating chain of overpriced caffeine.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • It was called "land-eating" -- in other words, the getting possession of each other's lands unjustly, and these, once obtained, were held with the greatest possible tenacity, for land was exceedingly valuable at Raratonga, and on no subject were the contentions of the people more frequent or fierce.

    Jarwin and Cuffy 1859

  • Long considered a giant, land-eating monster with iron claws that ripped and ravaged, coal mining hasn't always had an easy time of making friends.

    The Marietta Times 2009

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