ravin

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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

"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)

"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