The foundress-queen is now waited on by the workers, who supply her with food and spare her all cares of work, so that henceforth she may devote her whole energies to egg-laying.

The latter resolved to devote the rest of his life to the emancipation of the Jews.

I would be a damn fool not to devote everything I own in support of this.

Drew continued to work at his trade till 1805, when he entered into an engagement with Dr Thomas Coke, a prominent Wesleyan official, which enabled him to devote himself entirely to literature.

This office, however, he soon relinquished, to devote himself entirely to literary work.