ravin

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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

Four Winds Harbor was beginning to be a thing of dream and glamour and enchantment—a spellbound haven where no tempest might ever ravin.

From Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

Fury: In each human heart terror survives         The ravin it has gorged.

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah

"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