ravin

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These incidents are rendered more distressing in our country than elsewhere, because our printers ravin on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

The whole creation groaneth and travaileth, and so red in tooth and claw with ravin is Nature, that, it is said, no animal in a wild state dies a natural death.

From Man's Redemption of Man A Lay Sermon by Osler, William

Bartle stared at him; "Bodagh Buie's!—what do I know about Bodagh Buie? are you ravin'?"

From Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

I sat next Laycock at dinner and he was ravin'.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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