ravin

Example Sentences

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No thought he had but mere despair, no hope but the mere ravin of a beast.

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses; And filled his caves with prey, And his dens with ravin.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green

"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)

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

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