32 Verbs to Use for the Word ravening

Craz'd by the strength of hope at morn he eyes As sent from heav'n the raven of the skies, Then with despair's whole weight his spirits sink, No bread to feed him, and the snow his drink, 405 While ere his eyes can close upon the day, The eagle of the Alps o'ershades his prey.

Leibnetz tells us of a dog in Germany that could pronounce distinctly thirty words, Goldsmith informs us that he once heard a raven whistle the tune of the "Shamrock," with great distinctness, truth, and humour.

Here thou need'st not dread the raven in the sky; Night and day thou art safe,our cottage is hard by.

For He who feeds the ravens, promiseth Our bread and water sure, and leads us on By peaceful streams in pastures green to lie, Beneath our Shepherd's eye.

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

And he saw that it likewise had happened that a hawk had struck a raven in front of the hermit's habitation, and that some of the raven's feathers and some of its blood lay upon the snow.

How the sumac banners bent, dripping as if with blood, What a mournful presence brooded upon the slumbrous air; A mocking-bird screamed noisily in the depth of the silent wood, And in my heart was crying the raven of despair, Thrilling my being through with its bitter, bitter cry "It were better to die, it were better to die.

Maybe you know what has become of Morten Goosey-Gander and the wild geese?" "I've just come with a greeting from them," replied the raven.

Our Fowler, whose proud bird would brook erewhile No rival's swoop in all our western air! Gather the ravens, then, in funeral file, For him, life's morn-gold bright yet in his hair? "Leave me not hopeless, ye unpitying dames!

A clump of bushes standsa clump of hazels, Upon their very top there sits an eagle, And upon the bushes' topupon the hazels, Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven, And its hot blood he sprinkles on the dry ground; And beneath the bushes' clumpbeneath the hazels, Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling; All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.

They introduce the raven, for whom the Saxon felt it his duty to provide food on the battlefield: "...hraefen wandrode sweart and sealo-br=un;

, That, with hope of bloody banquet, Lured the ravens from the hill, But a dirge both low and solemn, Fit for ears of dying men, Marshalled for their latest battle, Never more to fight again.

Later we found the carcass of a yearling, with two eagles, not to mention ravens and magpies, feeding on it; but I could not tell whether they had themselves killed the yearling or not.

"Whenever I see this smithy," observed the raven, "I'm reminded that, in former times, there were such skilled blacksmiths here in Härjedalen, more especially in this villagethat they couldn't be matched in the whole country.

Like roe-bucks they went bounding o'er the hills; They played like two young ravens on the crags: 290 Then they could write, ay and speak too, as well As many of their bettersand for Leonard!

'Dame,' quoth the raven, 'spare your oaths, Unclench your fist, and wipe your clothes.

"The people who lived here in the valley were frequently attacked by them," remarked the raven.

gentler creature seen; He'd not have robbed the raven of its food.

Long, with the panting monks behind, And pausing but to scare The greedy ravens from their food, She searched with eager care.

There sat a raven 'mid the pines so dark, The pines so silent and so dark at morn A ragged bird with feathers rough and torn, Whetting his grimy beak upon the bark, And croaking hoarsely to the woods forlorn.

I have in mind the sweet-voiced girl who shall be the lost lady and sing the invocation to Sabrina; the swart youth who shall be the magician and say the lines, "At every fall, smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled"; and the golden-haired maid who shall glide in and out in silvery attire, as the attendant spirit.

His genius had been lying idle, like a lion in a thicket, and now it had sprung forth ravening.

The weaver took up the dead raven, saying as he did so:"Poor creature!

Wheeling round in gyres, yelled the fowls of war, Of the battle greedy; hoarsely barked the raven, Dew upon his feathers, o'er the fallen corpses Swart that chooser of the slain!

Just then a rude boy, who was passing, threw a dead raven in through the window.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  ravening