And when Scylla stooped to seize her, they struck back her ravening heads, and foul Scylla whined, as a whelp whines, at the touch of their gentle hands.
They are so plentifully propagated that a savage preaching “civilization” might regard it as a mercy that the localities of their infant nurture are such as suit the ravening appetites of cholera and typhus.
The hordes of ravening ants resolved themselves, as I have said, into five distinct columns of traffic which, inch by inch, fought for a footing up three of the four sides.
In the silvery light was no trace of gnawing worm, of ravening ant, or corroding fungus.
High on the pinnacles whereof there sits Hephaestus, sweltering at the forge; and thence On some hereafter day shall burst and stream The lava-floods, that shall with ravening fangs Gnaw thy smooth lowlands, fertile Sicily!
Him never shall the wolves with ravening maw Rend and devour: I do forbid the thought!
Never may this Pelasgian earth, Amid the fire-wrack, shrill the dismal cry On Ares, ravening lord of fight, Who in an alien harvest mows down man!
What if I uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed against the ravening lusts of Mammon?
They were red and black, smooth-coated and with a blood-hound head, and the moment they saw us they came ravening and leaping at the bars as an angry wave leaps against a rock.
Now, critics, ravening against a man because he is a gentleman and a scholar, and has not only the power but also the courage to write original works, why did not you discover that weak point?
And in the course of this watchfulness he saw many of his kinsmen caught and torn to pieces by the ravening dogfish, who are the very wolves of the sea.
There were no claws among all the ravening forest kindred strong enough to tear their way through such defences.
The Whirlwind, the ravening Dog, the Scorpion-man, 123.
The Whirlwind, theravening Dog, the Scorpion-man, 29.
The Whirlwind, theRavening Dog, the Scorpion-man, 91.
The Whirlwind, theRavening Dog, the Scorpion-man, 33.
Its nature is that of the ravening lion and the snake of the African desert.
Hypocritical, cruel, bloodthirsty Spain, in you voracious and ravening wolves have devoured, and still devour, my fleecy flocks!
If beauty be but skin-deep, civilization is not more profoundly ingrained, and the smallest rub reveals the primitiveravening beast.
They wallowed in the gore and entrails that covered the ground about them, like a pack of raveningwolves collected around the carcass of their prey, fleshing their keen fangs in it.
I tell you that the men down in Froeschwiller were no longer human beings; they were ravening wolves devouring one another.
Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.
They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
All the parade he could, he says, have borne, but what he considered indefensible was the exhibition of some hundreds of Irish beggars "to demonstrate what ravening hunger will make the image of God submit to.
To-day I would have left thee to perish alone within this ravening wilderness--that do bear so honourable a name!
Or how long would those ravening watchers remain obedient to the authority that denied their hunger relief?
If he went to the help of the hunted man, he might, more than probably, himself be pulled down and devoured by the ravening pack.
If Bruno had indeed fallen victim to misplaced confidence, and had been craftily lured into this den of ravening wild beasts, why all this confusion and mad skurry?
Still in a hollow square, with the Children of the Sun God in the centre, they slowly, doggedly fell back, ever facing the ravening foe, ever moving shoulder to shoulder as a single man.
Ravening king of the folk, for that thou hast thy rule over abjects; Else, son of Atreus, now were this outrage on me thy last one.
The song of Liberty in her hearing spoke A foreign tongue; Earth's fluttering little lyre Unlike, but like the raven's ravening croak.
Though not so close to the door, after that 7th of March night, the wolves were still without, on the roads--ravening everywhere.
The Cavalier wolves would now be ravening about free from all restraint--admitted to Montserrat House, and there made more welcome than ever.
Backward they reeled, striving now to escape the red wall of cold steel surging at them--only to fall under a fresh attack of ravening Mayorunas who came pouring in upon them from the sides.
Unfortunately for myself, senator, I did not paint the 'ravening wolves' which caught your fancy.
Don't be offended if I say that you look more capable of portraying woolly white lambs at play than ravening wolves measuring the strength of their quarry.
Do you know that it rests with me to save you, or to throw you to the wolves whose ravening you hear?
But against the solid walls and oak-barred door of the house the wave beat, only to fall back again, a broken, seething mass of brandished arms and ravening faces.
Miss Dolly's idea of the law, in common with that of most young ladies, suggested a horrible monster ravening to devour the fallen.
