| 1. | A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 2. | The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |