ravin

Example Sentences

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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

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses; And filled his caves with prey, And his dens with ravin.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green

"Jenny," said David, now perfectly bewildered by all this, to him, wholly incomprehensible ravin, "ye say I'm fou; but, if I'm no greatly mistaen, ye're the fouest o' the twa."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

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 Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

Is there no peace without bloodshed under the sun and moon, no respite from ravin even when the night is hooded like a dead monk?

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison