edacious vultures. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I had a prof. several semesters ago who constantly spoke of the "edacious deglutition of pig". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ADMINICLE.] Reference
The instant you enter the Thunderbird, you are overcome with an edacious distaste and a puncturing depression. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
Is the writerly part of me so insensitive, so edacious, that I while I am struck with sorrow a part of me is looking for ways to express it in writing? posted by Dean at. From Wordnik.com. [unimaginable] Reference
PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2002] Reference
For Time, all-edacious and all-feracious, does run on: and the Seven. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
(A third theory, involving edacious Cockneys, has not been explored.). From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
In fact, he claims, in his rather overwrought and edacious fashion, that he has had many private classes. From Wordnik.com. [Only Slightly Pretentious Food] Reference
I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Forces] Reference
They do not realize we are going to have a recession no matter what they do, and many times these panicked actions by Washington and its edacious appetite for more power only make things worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
And the edacious years continued. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Emblems] Reference
For the last eighteen months I have pretty much ceased all human correspondence, ” writing no Note that was not in a sense wrung from me; my one society the Nightmares (Prussian and other) all that while: ” but often and often the image of you, and the thoughts of old days between us, has risen sad upon me; and I have waited to get loose from the Nightmares to appeal to you again, ” to edacious Time and you. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II]
At last, however -- for supper, alas! like all other earthly pleasures, must come to an end -- "The fairest still the fleetest" -- our appetites waned gradually; and notwithstanding Harry's earnest exhortations, and the production of a broiled ham-bone, devilled to the very utmost pitch of English mustard, soy, oil of Aix, and cayenne pepper, by no hands, as may be guessed, but those of that universal genius, Timothy; one by one, we gave over our labors edacious, to betake us to potations of no small depth or frequency. From Wordnik.com. [Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago] Reference
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