ravin

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"It's sma' won'er the puir thing hasna muckle eppiteet," remarked Mrs. Blatherwick, "considerin the w'y yon ravin laddie up the stair has been cairryin on til her!"

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

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

How bitter a thing this was to this barrister of Gray’s Inn, may be seen in the strange terms of terror and ravin with which he characterizes these “strong, puissant, counterfeit holy, and idle beggars.”

From A Supplication for the Beggars by Fish, Simon

The Laureate, seeking Love's last law, Finds "Nature red in tooth and claw With ravin"; fierce and ruthless.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 14, 1892 by Various