ravin

Example Sentences

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The waters have risen,   The springs are unbound— The floods break their prison,   And ravin around.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

It put with irate and verbose extravagance the fact that sometimes Nature, red in tooth and claw, With ravin shrieked against his creed; but it failed to see any but one side of the question.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

No thought he had but mere despair, no hope but the mere ravin of a beast.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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)

This sea of silver, "hushed and halcyon," or this sea of wrath and ravin, wild as Judgment Day.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard