ravin
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Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Fury: In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
These incidents are rendered more distressing in our country than elsewhere, because our printers ravin on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
"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
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 William Carleton
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