ravin

Example Sentences

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Is there no peace without bloodshed under the sun and moon, no respite from ravin even when the night is hooded like a dead monk?

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison

Four Winds Harbor was beginning to be a thing of dream and glamour and enchantment—a spellbound haven where no tempest might ever ravin.

From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Ae nicht whan the win' gaed ravin aboot,   And the winnocks war speckled wi' faem, Frae room to room she strayt in and oot,   And she spied her pearly kaim.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

Depuis la consolidation de ce terrain des torrens nouveaux y ont creus� un ravin large et profond, par lequel s'�coulent actuellement les eaux des montagnes, et les pierres qu'elles en arrachent.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by Hutton, James

From this time the country became more or less open, according as France could keep it quiet, to the inroads of that modern beast of ravin, the tourist.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various