ravin

Example Sentences

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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

Such differences do exist, and conditions vary the world over, whence nature, which accumulates inequalities in the struggle for life, "with ravin shrieks against our creed."

From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward

Well, that was before you tuck to the fightin'; but I'm ravin'.

From The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

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