Judging from stomach contents, the beast can indeed devour prey whole, including other sharks and sea lions.

Let the beasts of the field devour her ignoble bones, he thought coldly.

It sounded as if a fearsome beast was actually devouring the whole room.

And Paulie will still be along for the ride, as will the person the beast devours.

He was afraid of dragons, for he'd seen his uncle's beast devour his own mother.

The beasts, in their lust for metal, had devoured it all.

But now, with the beast devoured in the flames of its own belly, I was free at last.

Afraid the beast would turn upon him and devour him.

'If the wild beasts in the forest had but devoured us, we should at any rate have died together.'

"Your beast devoured Dansin without provocation, though you swore it would not."