ravin

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Is there no peace without bloodshed under the sun and moon, no respite from ravin even when the night is hooded like a dead monk?

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison

"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)

It put with irate and verbose extravagance the fact that sometimes Nature, red in tooth and claw, With ravin shrieked against his creed; but it failed to see any but one side of the question.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Ae nicht whan the win' gaed ravin aboot,   And the winnocks war speckled wi' faem, Frae room to room she strayt in and oot,   And she spied her pearly kaim.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George