Wolves, foxes, and ravens are tearing and fighting for morsels.

We are fed we know not how,quietists, confiding ravens.

You, sirrah, levied arms to do me wrong; You brought your legions to the gates of Rome; You fought it out in hope that I would faint; But, sirrah, now betake you to your books, Entreat the gods to save your sinful soul: For why this carcase must in my behalf Go feast the ravens that serve our augurs' turn.

I know that Carbo longs to know the cause, And shall: thy body for the ravens, thy head for daws.

At Odin's side sit the two wolves, Gere and Freke, and on his shoulders the ravens, Hugin and Munin.

These ravens fly forth every morning and return with tidings from all parts of the world.

Goody, the fault was all your own; 40 For had you laid this brittle ware, On Dun, the old sure-footed mare, Though all the ravens of the hundred, With croaking had your tongue out-thundered, Sure-footed Dun had kept his legs, And you, good woman, saved your eggs.' FABLE XXXVIII.

100 At once the ravens were discarded, And magpies with their posts rewarded.

THE RAVENS, THE SEXTON, AND THE EARTH-WORM. TO LAURA.

Beneath a venerable yew, That in the lonely church-yard grew, Two ravens sat.

In carcases (say what we can) Or where's the dignity of man?' With due respect to human race, The ravens undertook the case.

Then came stretches of drenched fields, vacant except for big black ravens and nimble piebald magpies, which bickered among themselves in the neglected and matted grain; and then we swung round a curve in the rutted roadway and were in the town of Battice.

Soldiers paddled on the water in skiffs and thousands of ravens flickered about the pinnacles of the rocks, but between river and cliff there was nothing but ruinationthe graveyard of the homes of three thousand people.

[Footnote 6: The seven wicked spirits in the form of men with faces of ravens.]

At Mürren a pair of ravens also accompany the Ski-ers.

These "packed lunches" are usually so plentiful that the choughs and the ravens get a goodly feed.

All slow, and wan, and wrapp'd with shrouds, They rise in visionary crowds, 50 And all with sober accent cry, 'Think, mortal, what it is to die!' Now from yon black and funeral yew, That bathes the charnal-house with dew, Methinks I hear a voice begin; (Ye ravens, cease your croaking din, Ye tolling clocks, no time resound O'er the long lake and midnight ground!)

On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smear'd with gore and ghastly pale; Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail; The famish'd eagle screams and passes by.

Bland VIRGIL'S beyond resurrection; The voice of the moment is harsh; The nightingale's golden perfection Offends the young ravens of MARSH; ARISTOPHANES, grossly facetious, Is but a "compulsory" god, And HOMER as well as LUCRETIUS Too frequently nod.

The victors buried their own dead and left the bodies of the vanquished to the wolves and ravens.

It never denotes merely a physical quality; in such expressions as 'leur fauve volée', speaking of the ravens in La Fin de Satan, 'le désert fauve' (Androclès), 'son bec fauve', of the vulture (Sultan Mourad), the suggestion of wildness or ruthlessness predominates.

She has qualms too every morning: ravens mightily for green fruit; and swoons at the sight of hot meat.

Here the deadness of the region seemed further enlivened by several small birds, speckled and gray, two ravens, and a hawk.

The screaming of jays and ravens above his head quickened his speed, as it heralded the rapid advance of the flames; and the unexpected apparition of a bounding body, flattened and flying over the yellow plain, told him that even the secure retreat of the mountain wild-cat had been invaded.

Some that they had most loved to read were likewise there: "Pollock's Course of Time"; the slow outpourings of Young, sad sectary; Milton, with the passages on Hell approvingly underscorednot as great poetry, but as great doctrine; nowhere in the bookcases a sign of the "Areopagitica," of "Comus," and "L'Allegro"; but most prominent the writings of Jonathan Edwards, hoarsest of the whole flock of New World theological ravens.