ravin
Example Sentences
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How bitter a thing this was to this barrister of Gray’s Inn, may be seen in the strange terms of terror and ravin with which he characterizes these “strong, puissant, counterfeit holy, and idle beggars.”
From A Supplication for the Beggars by Simon Fish
Save Thy lamp, Thy hound, From wolves that ravin and from thieves that prey!
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
"The whole population were ravin mad, an we had hard enough work to get away."
From Among the Brigands by James De Mille
These incidents are rendered more distressing in our country than elsewhere, because our printers ravin on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
