ravin

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Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

"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

What we've got to do is to hustle, an' in the long run we'll find that will pay better'n ravin'.

From An Amateur Fireman by Otis, James

That he ravin not, make-a-prey; called a plueker Renter or Tearer, and elsewhere Laby that is, Harty and couragious; Kphir, this lurking, Couchant.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

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