ravin

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The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses; And filled his caves with prey, And his dens with ravin.

From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Moulton, Richard Green

Such differences do exist, and conditions vary the world over, whence nature, which accumulates inequalities in the struggle for life, "with ravin shrieks against our creed."

From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward

Save Thy lamp, Thy hound,     From wolves that ravin and from thieves that prey!

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

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)

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