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AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY FOUNDED IN 1837
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  • A Little, Brown and Co. insignia used in 1906.

voracious         
a.
Ravenous, greedy, rapacious, hungry.
voracious         
[v?'re???s]
¦ adjective
1. wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
2. very eager or enthusiastic in one's approach: a voracious reader.
Derivatives
voraciously adverb
voraciousness noun
voracity noun
Origin
C17: from L. vorax, vorac- (from vorare 'devour') + -ious.
Voracious         
·adj Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily Dickinson's poetry and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Since 2006 Little, Brown and Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group.

Examples of use of voracious
1. Bancroft‘s "sullenly contemptuous and voracious performance." Mr.
2. She was a voracious reader; novels were her favorite.
3. Unfortunately, Blair‘s addiction to campaigning by legislating remains voracious.
4. China‘s voracious appetite for petroleum drives up world oil prices.
5. Las Vegas has a voracious appetite for service workers.