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Definition of Ravens

1. raven [v] - See also: raven

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravens

Literary usage of Ravens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"THE THREE ravens. 1. There were three ravens sat on a tree, Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe, There were three ravens sat on a tree, With a downe, ..."

2. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"There were three ravens sat on a tree, Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe, There were three ravens sat on a tree, With a downe, There were three ravens sat ..."

3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"Another copy follows, taken from Scott's Minstrelsy. Motherwell has recast the ballad in modern style, p. 7 of his collection. THERE were three ravens sat ..."

4. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"THE THREE ravens 1 THERE were three ravens sat on a tree, Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe There were three ravens sat on a tree, With a downe There were ..."

5. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1910)
"70 THE THREE ravens There were three ravens sat on a tree, Downe a downe, ... There were three ravens sat on a tree, 5 They were as blacke as they might be, ..."

6. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"The Three ravens,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xviii, No xn. ... The Three ravens ' is translated by Grundtvig, Engelske og skotske Folkeviser, p. ..."

7. Lessons in English by Fred Newton Scott, Gordon Augustus Southworth (1916)
"PUSS AND THE ravens In a garden behind a big house lived a cat and two ravens. ... If the ravens came near the house she growled and looked ..."

8. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"the Hands: ravens sent for Virginia; Divers mutinies; Paine executed: Two Pinnaces built. jjO soone as wee were a little setled after our landing, ..."

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