Noble turned to ravening thief!

The flame, leaping from sedge to sedge, from trunk to trunk, seems to seek, with a human instinct, and more than human pertinacity, food for its ravening hunger; far upward, where festoons of moss hung from the sycamores in the day, airy banners of starry sparks, swayed, coiled, and flamed among the branches.

Vice, ravening vulture, on her vitals preyed; Her peers, her prelates, fell corruption swayed: Their rights, for power, the ambitious weakly sold:

It was a ravening beast, an ugly thing, big and brutal, and ... like King.

The waters of this canal did not run; they crawled, and were full of big, ravening fish and alligators, that held it against all comers.

"After all, if Laban did fleece us, he kept at bay other ravening wolves.

The personalities of the ravening brute and of the man are blended now in one, or rather the personality of the man has been eliminated.

there comes a ravening kite, That both at quick, at dead, at all will smite.

I have pass'd a wilderness Of most mischievous and miserable distress; Sharp brambles, sharp briars, and terrible scratchers, Bears, wolves, apes, lions, most ravening snatchers, Thorns, thistles, and nettles, most horrible stingers, Ravens, gripes and griphons.

It has as many shapes as there are minutes, and as many excuses and wraps of sheep's clothing as ever ravening wolf possessed.

A COMMON CRUEL JAILOR Is a creature mistaken in the making, for he should be a tiger; but the shape being thought too terrible, it is covered, and he wears the vizor of a man, yet retains the qualities of his former fierceness, currishness, and ravening.

The gay young men are at the front, the idle young women knitting or nursing or helping the poor, and it is an adventure uncommon enough to be remembered to meet on the street a pretty young lady merely out to take the air, with hands in her muff and trotting in front of her the timorous dachshund, muzzled like a ravening tiger and looking at the world askance with his rueful eyes.

Not counting Sundays and Bank holidays, this will give us rather more than 75,000 newly created souls a yearcannibal souls, ravening for the brains of men and women similar to the brains that gave them birth, and each able to devour as many brains as it can catch.

THE BOOK-WORM. Come hither, boy, we'll hunt to-day The book-worm, ravening beast of prey! Produced by parent Earth, at odds (As Fame reports it) with the gods.

Why I have these fits of yawning I cannot tell: maybe they are sent as a punishment for my misdeeds; but, whatever the reason, the facts are that when I have yawned three times I become a ravening wolf and fly at men's throats.

When she had confirmed him by an oath, then she told him all this business of her lordwhy he went, and what he became, and of his ravening within the wood.

So we shall see presently whether the ravening beast may indeed return to human shape.

It is not wicked for a tiger to be ravening.

It is wicked for man to be ravening or sinuous, because it is against the divine nature that God has put in man.

Under the impulse of his ravening grief, John watched the spectacle of the world's forgetfulness, and the seeming obscenity horrified him even to the limits of madness.

He was not conscious of anything but a ravening hunger, and he believed that he knew where he could satisfy it.

It leaps and it howls like some ravening beast At first sight of feeding, through grating of iron It roars on the shore with a furious purring, It licks on the pebbles with eagerest greed.

But when that child, called Spring, and all His host of children, come, Scattering their buds and dew upon These acres of my home, Some rapture in my rags awakes; I lift void eyes and scan The skies for crows, those ravening foes, Of my strange master, Man.

"He has strong friends as yet, but his enemies are like ravening wolves.

And the beast, flattening to the floor, crawled backwards, inch by inch; it was slavering, and there was a ravening madness in its eyes.