ravin

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For the true scorpion whips are those of the nation's pleasant vices, which are to it as St. John's locusts—crown on the head, ravin in the mouth, and sting in the tail.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

That he ravin not, make-a-prey; called a plueker Renter or Tearer, and elsewhere Laby that is, Harty and couragious; Kphir, this lurking, Couchant.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

Ae nicht whan the win' gaed ravin aboot,   And the winnocks war speckled wi' faem, Frae room to room she strayt in and oot,   And she spied her pearly kaim.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

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

This sea of silver, "hushed and halcyon," or this sea of wrath and ravin, wild as Judgment Day.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard