Of the ravenousness of wolves among the Jews, take these two examples besides others. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
I started to pour some into a cereal bowl, but in my current state of ravenousness, a cereal bowl looked roughly the size of a thimble. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
Then it occurred to me that I have not yet savoured the taste of borshch-as-imagined-by-Lisa, despite my repeated expressions of salivation and ravenousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
His ravenousness reminds us of this species which some bright person brought to our country to promote fish farming, and which is now a pest in our rivers and lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: The Fish That Is Eating Cuba] Reference
For those of us who dash into Queretaro for the "big box" run at Costco, Home Depot etc., we are often faced with both weariness and ravenousness, so we head to whatever is handy. From Wordnik.com. [Great food in Queretaro] Reference
But whence is it that a certain ravenousness and frenzy drives you in these happy days to pollute yourselves with blood, since you have such an abundance of things necessary for your subsistence?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Very popular were these confiscations; and in view of so many augmentations of the stock at Kenilworth, it was not too much to hope that the ravenousness of the public appetite would be allowed its wonted scope. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
But the reckoning finally settled down to four, and people would converse learnedly though only about half-seriously about the “attributes” and “tendencies” of different kinds of matter: the impetuosity, ravenousness, and light-contributing nature of Fire, the malleability and passiveness of Water, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
Phentermine works in your inner agita ted scheme to slab ravenousness and apportion you a raise of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
Its smallish wheelbase allowed the IS F to tackle the road with the ravenousness of a sports coupe, not a four-door sedan. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
Even the best of women, even the most beautiful, and in their moments of supremest beauty, have this gross ravenousness for facts. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Pets Dance EP, as advertised, displays a single-minded ravenousness, aggressively consuming and generally failing to discern the edible from the non. From Wordnik.com. [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference
Seventeen noxious qualities of the wolf are adduced -- his ravenousness, his cunning, his falseness, his cowardice, his thirst for robbery, amongst others. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
The use of undercover website and hosting melastoma slackly pads unfocused on the locket postdoc overreaction the rosicrucianism to ravenousness and wildfire caudally. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
During the night we heard a commotion in the kitchen and much choking, coughing, and groaning, and at breakfast the boy was unable to swallow food with his usual ravenousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Some of the tender herbs were then brought, but he would not touch them, and evinced other symptoms of antipathy, while he showed his ravenousness by trying to seize the keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] Reference
Then indulgence feeds passion, and deeper draughts become necessary in order to produce the same effects, and cravings, once allowed free play, grow in ravenousness, while their pabulum steadily loses its power to satisfy. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
I’ll miss wolfing the chicken salad in the green rooms on Friday with that strange ravenousness that descends after taping a show. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Brown: 10 Things I Learned at Topic A] Reference
A commotion in the kitchen and much choking, coughing, and groaning, and at breakfast the boy was unable to swallow food with his usual ravenousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Required rare ravenousness of appetite; and the bursting of a shell in the midst of a surging mass of humanity was so certain to be attended by fatal results that it was only the very healthy who bothered battling for so little. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
For a human body no ways resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Synonyms included avarice, covetousness, gluttony, insatiability, piggishness, ravenousness and voraciousness. From Wordnik.com. [John Stossel is Inducted into Mammon's Hall of Fame] Reference
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