ravin

Example Sentences

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The waters have risen,   The springs are unbound— The floods break their prison,   And ravin around.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

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 Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

"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

He sure does," said Buck, "which shows that he's jest ravin'.

From The Untamed by Brand, Max

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