Verb (used without object) : to raven like an animal. From Dictionary.com.
Or fierce sun's ravening might, or searching blast. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
Sword-ravening had held for an hundred of seasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Drave the strong North, or shrilled the ravening East. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference
The gentle divinities flee from the ravening earth; in. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Strange ravening monsters; the tiger behind gilded bars. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
Jerusalem, and are quick to spy the lurking wolf and ravening bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
"The demon of evil, with his fierce ravening, greedily grasped them". From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
It shot up first-born when the ravening eagle on the rugged flanks of. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Let the compulsion be some other poor bastard's ravening subconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
He has no sense of the ravening world colonizers he deplored in Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Companies that create jobs for people run into a wall of ravening analysts. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Stanley Bing: How Wall Street Is Screwing up the Recovery] Reference
Merenra if he see fit to humor this ravening lord with a breach of the law?. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
For the most part, however, only the ravening sea roared malice in their ears. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
No diet so pleasing to these ravening wolves, as the warme blood of the sheepe. From Wordnik.com. [A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich] Reference
A vast mountain of green water lifted up its bulk and fell upon us in a ravening cataract. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
This was no message of fear or warning, but of implacable stubbornness and ravening hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
He spake, and rushed upon Tiphys son of Hagnias; and his eyes sparkled like flashes of ravening flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
When our ravening appetite was appeased a little, Young got out the coffee-pot and set to making coffee. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
The sea was smooth and favourable for rowing, and soon the ravening pursuit closed in on the doomed corsair. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistakes of Jesus] Reference
Then, even as ravening wolves hasten through the mist seeking for prey, so they went through the city, doing dreadful deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
On shore, for her there were only ravening wolves; waterfalls were no worse than they, and perhaps there were no more waterfalls. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
It began to appear a question, in time, of what they were to subsist upon, even though they turned to the ravening of one another. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
"Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood ... and to run after gains through covetousness.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
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