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Definition of Raveners
1. ravener [n] - See also: ravener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raveners
Literary usage of Raveners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"But those raveners, being disappointed, plucked me down, and abused me, and beat
some Friends, and then took me before a magistrate, but he set me at ..."
2. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"... Like dotage of the past-meridian dame For some bright Sungod adolescent,
swelled Insatiate, to the voracious grew, The glutton's inward raveners bred; ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1820)
"... him therein " Roy dc raveners" &c.; whereupon he, being arraigned, pleaded
thereunto not guilty, and was found guilty, as by the record appeareth. ..."
4. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"... CHURCH. clerks she hath, but very many of them are deceitful raveners; pastors,
as they are called, but rather wolves prepared for the slaughter of ..."
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