ravin
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Example Sentences
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"Jenny," said David, now perfectly bewildered by all this, to him, wholly incomprehensible ravin, "ye say I'm fou; but, if I'm no greatly mistaen, ye're the fouest o' the twa."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
"Nature, red in tooth and claw, with ravin shrieks against the creed" of the Theist.
From Arrows of Freethought by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Nature, as red in tooth and claw with ravin, is thus without question a large and general fact that must be considered by any theory of teleology which can be propounded.
From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles
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
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
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