- a variation of raven.
ravin
Example Sentences
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He sure does," said Buck, "which shows that he's jest ravin'.
From The Untamed by Max Brand
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
I sat next Laycock at dinner and he was ravin'.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth, and so red in tooth and claw with ravin is Nature, that, it is said, no animal in a wild state dies a natural death.
From Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon by William Osler
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 William Carleton