- a variation of raven.
ravin
Example Sentences
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I sat next Laycock at dinner and he was ravin'.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
Nature, as red in tooth and claw with ravin, is thus without question a large and general fact that must be considered by any theory of teleology which can be propounded.
From Thoughts on Religion by Charles Gore
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
"It's sma' won'er the puir thing hasna muckle eppiteet," remarked Mrs. Blatherwick, "considerin the w'y yon ravin laddie up the stair has been cairryin on til her!"
From Salted with Fire by George MacDonald
Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
