ravening

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He performed wonderfully well; it was difficult to realize that the hairy, ravening, agile, and grotesquely-moving beast, from which every visitor shrank back aghast, was only jolly Jack Gale serving out his hard servitude for an anticipated bride, very much after the ancient fashion of Laban's kinsman.

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  1. adjective Greedily predacious; voracious or rapacious.
  2. noun The action of one that ravens.

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  • The psychic storm from the others nearly overwhelmed me, smashing like the ravening tumble of a cloudburst I WAS sick, bedeviled, racked by fear, shaken by hate, until Sam put out a calming thought. —  APRIL, 1953 Vol
  • Thus lived this lazy drone upon the labours of the industrious bees, to his high content and their no small trouble, to whom his company was as offensive as his ravening was oppressive; nor could they get any relief by their complaining of him to the keepers. —  The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself
  • It claws at us like a ravening beast, and is loathe to release us from its grip. —  Rachel Lee - Shadows of Destiny
  • Each shell, he knew in his heart, aimed for his particular bit of safety and, like a ravening beast, craved his blood. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • There were only a few things that could turn an apparition into a ravening, hungry, vengeful ghost, most of them having to do with soul-destroying torture before the act of death. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 2] - Dead Man Rising
 

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