- a variation of raven.
ravin
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
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
The waters have risen, The springs are unbound— The floods break their prison, And ravin around.
From Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
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 Richard Green Moulton
