ravin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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
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
Fury: In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged.
From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah
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
The whole creation groaneth and travaileth, and so red in tooth and claw with ravin is Nature, that, it is said, no animal in a wild state dies a natural death.
From Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon by Osler, William
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