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augury, darting from a lofty rock, comes up with a dove high in the clouds, holds her in her gripe, and with crooked talons tears out her heart, while gore and plucked feathers come tumbling from the sky.— VIRGIL. Eat.

Eat like a hog. —ANON.
Eat like a horse. - IBID.
Eats like rust. - IBID.

Eat like wolves. — IBID.

Eat like maggots into an estate. CHARLES LAMB.

Eating, sharply as aqua-fortis into brass, into the metal of her vanity — and her pride. - OUIDA.

Eat up like fire the ashen autumn days. SWINBURNE.

Eat as doth a canker. — NEW TES

A rustinesse consumeth iron: So envie consumeth the envious man. - ANTHONIE FLETCHER'S "CERTAIN VERY PROPER AND PROFITABLE SIMILIES," 1595.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so SAINT doth envy consume a man. CHRYSOSTOM.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impatience, folds its arms in despair. JEREMY COLLIER.

Pity and envy, like oil and vinegar, assimilate not. - C. C. COLTON.

Envy excels in exciting jealousy, as a rat draws the crocodile from its hole. - HUGO.

Envy, like a flame soars upward.
LYVY.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. J. PETIT-SENN.

Erect as a sunbeam, upspringeth

the palm.

EMERSON.

Erect as a live hydra. - HUGO.

Erect as alders. - OVID.

Grow erect as the great pine grows. -E. R. SILL.

Erect, like pillars of the temple. SOUTHEY.

Essential as the dew. - EDNA P. C. HAYES.

Erect.