ravin
Example Sentences
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Such differences do exist, and conditions vary the world over, whence nature, which accumulates inequalities in the struggle for life, "with ravin shrieks against our creed."
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
From this time the country became more or less open, according as France could keep it quiet, to the inroads of that modern beast of ravin, the tourist.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various
But we cain't hang up heah, moon eyed an' ravin'.
From Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey
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
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
