“Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?”
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
“She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.”
“The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster.”