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

From this time the country became more or less open, according as France could keep it quiet, to the inroads of that modern beast of ravin, the tourist.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

"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

The thievery of his thoughts and the ravin of his envy would have provided interesting bases of speculation for the reflective magistrate, since, if, according to the metaphysician, thoughts are things, he committed crimes daily.

From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.

But we cain't hang up heah, moon eyed an' ravin'.

From Valley of Wild Horses by Grey, Zane