ravin

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As a sword is the heart of the God thy brother, But thine as the heart of a new-made mother,1320 To deliver thy sons from his ravin, and rage of his tide.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Bartle stared at him; "Bodagh Buie's!—what do I know about Bodagh Buie? are you ravin'?"

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

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 Fish, Simon

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

I sat next Laycock at dinner and he was ravin'.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe