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    raven


    ravened


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    ravens


    1. Clarisse is next to him, her long raven hair spilling over her pillow and John’s arm on which she is resting


    2. shepherds further up the mountain were talking about a white skinned ghost, a raven


    3. The heavens split wide open and I fell into a void, a pit of dense, black, smothering raven feathers


    4. To finish the demonic effect, a stuffed raven mounted on a piece of polished mahogany was nailed to the rear parcel shelf


    5. where they were all twenty-five, raven haired and able to drink


    6. A stunning raven haired beauty was placing two large pitchers of a brew on the table


    7. 41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God


    8. "But of course," a small chuckle slipped from the back of his throat, "there was the time, that a sweet little city girl, with raven colored eyes, drove into town, scooped up my heart, and drove away


    9. stark call of a raven sitting on one of the broken stone


    10. Her long, raven black hair, piercing blue eyes, bronze skin and those womanly curves were enough to make any man’s mouth go as dry as desert sand

    11. The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’


    12. “Second, the preservation techniques of the Raven Guardian cult are and always will be


    13. consul was placed at the head of a different cult, with Rennoltrix the elder leading the raven


    14. main temple, and as the raven guardians were the largest of the cults, numbering on average 388 in


    15. disgusted, and cast him upon the raven spire


    16. way of the raven spire at the last moment and landed on the relatively soft bed of waste that


    17. kitchen servants, Raven Guardians of low rank, what had become of his brother, for usually babes


    18. that escape impalement upon the raven spire are mounted upon it the following day by the elder


    19. Raven Guardians revealed they had seen the Rose sister remove the infant


    20. “Please Billy Boy don’t ruin this we have so little time like Rosie said there is so much death and destruction in this war isn’t it time you and me became true lovers?” I held her close and the smell of her was like a sun kissed orchard and I buried my face into her soft raven hair that smelled of flowers

    21. of the Raven Guardians


    22. only members of the Raven Guardian cult not to accept contracts


    23. Raven turned to face her and his eyes met hers


    24. “Are you sure you know where we’re going?” Raven asked again a while later


    25. Raven found it beautiful; all of the colours clashing with no apparent theme or pattern


    26. Today, Raven would witness his first fight between two women


    27. Raven hated them both


    28. How could that be attractive? But Raven knew that the men here adored her and would quiver in her presence tonight


    29. Raven seethed at the sight of them and turned away from the door


    30. He had been referred to as Raven

    31. Raven looked at the white background and could just make out faint lines


    32. Raven wondered what her crime was


    33. It made Raven feel sick


    34. Raven too had felt this fear and suspicion of religion


    35. As Khan passed him, they made eye contact and he gave Raven a charming smile


    36. Now he was this close to Khan, Raven felt a presence surrounding him, a tangible sense of danger


    37. Raven didn’t catch his first glimpse of her until she stepped up into the ring


    38. Raven was ready to despise her but, slowly, his bitterness melted away as his eyes locked onto her beautiful flowing form


    39. Raven was transfixed by her supple flesh and the gentle curve of her hips as she swung them from side to side


    40. As she shuffled her way clumsily to the ring, Raven felt a twinge of pity

    41. Raven knew he should be supporting Carter, knew he should respect that strength and courage, but no matter how hard he tried, he found himself rooting for Millicent


    42. Raven found himself watching, fascinated, engrossed in the way she swam through the air with ease


    43. Raven watched as Millicent threw a vicious punch to the right side of Carter’s face


    44. Standing next to Raven, Alexia looked around the room


    45. Alexia had hoped that Raven might be different, but she saw the fascination in his eyes as he followed Millicent’s every move


    46. She glanced out of the corner of her eye at Raven


    47. So far, Raven had appeared to be exempt from the ‘entertainment’ factor of the Phoenix Project


    48. She was so fixated with Raven, feeling irritation prickle within her every time Millicent’s vulgar form flitted across her vision


    49. She looked back over to Raven


    50. Raven was still fixated on the mesmerising presence of Millicent, fighting with a vehemence matched only by her seduction














































    1. Which was great for I ravened for leagues of bush


    2. Not only has he torn a passion to tatters, he has, madness maddened, stomped on it, ravened it with his teeth, and hurled it across the footlights at unsuspecting club ladies


    3. He ravened at it


    1. For her it was a ravening beast


    2. single mediocrity, she could feel the ravening joy of her twin cravings rising in her


    3. While he foresaw an evening of single mediocrity, she could feel the ravening joy of her twin cravings rising in her gorge


    4. and coiled and ravening


    5. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves


    6. Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves


    7. 13 They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion


    8. Eze 22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof


    9. from the hands of the destroying lion and of the ravening wolf, and when you have rescued my captivity from the hands of the wild


    10. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have

    11. 15 "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves


    12. 34 Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing while within they are ravening wolves; But by their fruits you shall know them


    13. A bloke and a girl would be escaping ravening wolves, erupting volcanoes or pursuing crooks, and she"d stop and start arguing, asking questions, complaining she wasn"t being treated with respect


    14. 2Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves


    15. The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none could stand before them


    16. It appeared to his thirteen-year-old mind like a ravening monster, seething


    17. clothing,(looking godly) but inwardly they are ravening wolves (violent


    18. Return with your ravening pack only after I’ve sounded the Great Horn


    19. "Like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls [souls-


    20. "Like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls (souls–

    21. I nodded as my mind filled with all the fantasies and desires I had stored away like a ravening beast that needed to be locked up because there was no where safe for it to roam


    22. "Like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls


    23. 13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a


    24. "Like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls [souls -


    25. "Like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls [souls - nehpheshs]"


    26. And from this marvellous union shall come forth to the light of the world brave whelps that shall rival the ravening claws of their valiant father; and this shall come to pass ere the pursuer of the flying nymph shall in his swift natural course have twice visited the starry signs


    27. It was as if a flock of foolish sheep placed themselves under the protection of a pack of ravening wolves


    28. Werner who watched Volkheimer wade into house after house, the same ravening nightmare recurring over and over and over


    29. The consequence of his outburst answered a ravening desire: Raw brutality gave him sway over men that his rank did not


    30. Just at the moment it is, but usually it's full of ravening beasts

    31. There a host of Wargs came ravening and with them came the bodyguard of Bolg, goblins of huge size with scimitars of steel


    32. milder, and the wolves that had once come ravening out of the North in


    33. The little ravening London savage was still snatching and devouring when she turned away


    34. "Heart of wrought steel!" murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat—"canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight?—lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day?—For when three days flow together in one continuous intense pursuit; be sure the first is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing—be that end what it may


    35. As a matter of fact, despite text and catechism, he was inwardly as a ravening wolf


    36. Their (as we call it) savage eagerness, their almost blind rage for their appointed food, the tenacity with which they clutch and the ravening anxiety (caused by the dread of losing their prey) with which they tear the flesh of their victims, is portrayed to the life


    1. We perched on purple plastic chairs and peered through the spaces in the flooring at the shags and ravens flying through the air below us


    2. we forget that he lived in a cave while waiting for the ravens to


    3. Before Ravens could feed Elijah, he had to be in a


    4. Thieves like that are like ravens – once they’ve


    5. whatever death his tortured thoughts produced, to have her entrails studied before he savored them, to have the few scraps that he didn’t eat tossed out for the ravens, to have to bear the fear of it for weeks, until he settled on a pleasing method… it was unmercifully cruel for the Fates to spin such a bitter end to her hard life


    6. ‘It IS the same thing with you,’ said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much


    7. Marching on we passed other groups old men and children and women dressed all in black looking like a coven of ravens watching us as we went by they had pinched and sallow faces and looked like they had the weight of the world on their shoulders


    8. Crows and ravens had gathered on the fields, thousands of them feeding on demon carcasses


    9. 4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there


    10. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook

    11. 9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry


    12. The eye which mocks his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and


    13. Led by Seagull, the ravens fought bravely and finally drove the dogs off, but they were all wounded and the fever found them and took four of them including the great warrior Seagull


    14. She turned her head to see five ravens after them, low to the ground


    15. On the wagon, Nicolas and the Major ducked and spun and slashed as the ravens flung themselves toward them


    16. From the corners of her eyes she could see the brightly painted wagons and blurred motion as the Gypsies battled the ravens who had once more descended on them


    17. The still-living ravens had withdrawn once again


    18. Hounds and ravens and bloody injustice could not be the stuff of reality


    19. 24 Yes, also the ravens ministered to Elijah, bearing him food, as they had been


    20. Maggie shut her eyes as thoughts of the unearthly hound and the ravens washed over her

    21. The ravens and the hound both had carried it with them


    22. And they began to bring out beasts of the field and birds, so that there arose different genera: lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, hyenas, wild boars, foxes, squirrels, pigs, falcons, vultures, kites, eagles, and ravens; and among them was born a white bull; And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born among them begot a wild ass and a white bull with it, and the wild asses multiplied; But that bull which was born from him begot a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begot many boars, but that sheep begot twelve sheep; And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep grew up among the wolves; And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves, and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep; And the wolves began to fear them, and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones, and they throw their young into a river of much water, but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones, and to complain to their Lord; And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and begged their Lord with all their might, till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode, and came to them and pastured them; And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spoke with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep; And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord, and another sheep met it and went with it, and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves, and spoke with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from from now on; And thereon I saw the wolves, and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud; And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to strike those wolves, and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and immediately ceased to cry out; And I saw the sheep till they departed from among the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded, and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power; And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed Him, and his face was dazzling and glorious and aweful to see; But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water; And that sea was divided, and the water stood on this side and on that before their face, and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves; And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep, they proceeded into the midst of that sea, and the wolves followed the sheep, and those wolves ran after them into that sea; And when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee before His face, but that sea gathered itself together, and became as it had been created, and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves; And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned


    23. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep, and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands, to pasture them for their period, each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming, the eagles, the vultures, the kites, the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep, and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds, and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites, and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there, and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    24. Yes, they cried to them, but they did not listen to what they said to 8 them, but were exceedingly deaf, and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded; And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew on those lambs and took one of those lambs, and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them; And I saw till horns grew on those lambs, and the ravens throw down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep, and their eyes were opened; And it looked at them and their eyes opened, and it cried to the sheep, and the rams saw it and all ran to it; And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down on them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent, but the rams lamented and cried out; And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn, but they had no power over it


    25. And I saw till the shepherds and eagles and those vultures and kites came, and they cried to the ravens that they should break the horn of that ram, and they battled and fought with it, and it battled with them and cried that its help might come


    26. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together, and there came with them all the sheep of the field, yes, they all came together, and helped each other to break that horn of the ram; And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep, and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to kill them, and all the beasts and the birds of the Heaven fled before their face


    27. And they began to bring out beasts of the field and birds so that there arose different genera: lions tigers wolves dogs hyenas wild boars foxes squirrels pigs falcons vultures kites eagles and ravens; and among them was born a white bull; And they began to bite one another; but that white bull which was born among them begot a wild ass and a white bull with it and the wild asses multiplied; But that bull which was born from him begot a black wild boar and a white sheep; and the former begot many boars but that sheep begot twelve sheep; And when those twelve sheep had grown they gave up one of them to the asses and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves and that sheep grew up among the wolves; And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep; And the wolves began to fear them and they oppressed them until they destroyed their little ones and they throw their young into a river of much water but those sheep began to cry aloud on account of their little ones and to complain to their Lord; And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried and begged their Lord with all their might till that Lord of the sheep descended at the voice of the sheep from a lofty abode and came to them and pastured them; And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves and spoke with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep; And the sheep went to the wolves according to the word of the Lord and another sheep met it and went with it and the two went and entered together into the assembly of those wolves and spoke with them and admonished them not to touch the sheep from from now on; And thereon I saw the wolves and how they oppressed the sheep exceedingly with all their power; and the sheep cried aloud; And the Lord came to the sheep and they began to strike those wolves and the wolves began to make lamentation; but the sheep became quiet and immediately ceased to cry out; And I saw the sheep till they departed from among the wolves; but the eyes of the wolves were blinded and those wolves departed in pursuit of the sheep with all their power; And the Lord of the sheep went with them as their leader and all His sheep followed Him and his face was dazzling and glorious and aweful to see; But the wolves began to pursue those sheep till they reached a sea of water; And that sea was divided and the water stood on this side and on that before their face and their Lord led them and placed Himself between them and the wolves; And as those wolves did not yet see the sheep they proceeded into the midst of that sea and the wolves followed the sheep and those wolves ran after them into that sea; And when they saw the Lord of the sheep they turned to flee before His face but that sea gathered itself together and became as it had been created and the water swelled and rose till it covered those wolves; And I saw till all the wolves who pursued those sheep perished and were drowned


    28. And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing of the sheep and they severally completed their periods as did the first; and others received them into their hands to pasture them for their period each shepherd in his own period; And after that I saw in my vision all the birds of Heaven coming the eagles the vultures the kites the ravens; but the eagles led all the birds; and they began to devour those sheep and to pick out their eyes and to devour their flesh; And the sheep cried out because their flesh was being devoured by the birds and as for me I looked and lamented in my sleep over that shepherd who pastured the sheep; And I saw until those sheep were devoured by the dogs and eagles and kites and they left neither flesh nor skin nor sinew remaining on them till only their bones stood there and their bones too fell to the Earth and the sheep became few; And I saw until that twenty three had undertaken the pasturing and completed in their several periods fifty-eight times


    29. Yes they cried to them but they did not listen to what they said to 8 them but were exceedingly deaf and their eyes were very exceedingly blinded; And I saw in the vision how the ravens flew on those lambs and took one of those lambs and dashed the sheep in pieces and devoured them; And I saw till horns grew on those lambs and the ravens throw down their horns; and I saw till there sprouted a great horn of one of those sheep and their eyes were opened; And it looked at them and their eyes opened and it cried to the sheep and the rams saw it and all ran to it; And notwithstanding all this those eagles and vultures and ravens and kites still kept tearing the sheep and swooping down on them and devouring them: still the sheep remained silent but the rams lamented and cried out; And those ravens fought and battled with it and sought to lay low its horn but they had no power over it


    30. And I saw till the shepherds and eagles and those vultures and kites came and they cried to the ravens that they should break the horn of that ram and they battled and fought with it and it battled with them and cried that its help might come

    31. All the eagles and vultures and ravens and kites were gathered together and there came with them all the sheep of the field yes they all came together and helped each other to break that horn of the ram; And I saw till a great sword was given to the sheep and the sheep proceeded against all the beasts of the field to kill them and all the beasts and the birds of the Heaven fled before their face


    32. 24 Yes also the ravens ministered to Elijah bearing him food as they had been commanded


    33. In his hands the mind-cane lurched, and the memory of his journey to Gathandria flooded his thought: the mountain; the wild dogs; the path to the air-kingdom where the ravens dwelt


    34. Their fierceness clutched and tore at his skin like the beaks of ravens, or one raven, had once done, and his cries, real now, mingled with his father’s


    35. A rich autumn night, heavy with the sound of the night ravens in the sky and small animals burrowing underneath the soil


    36. Does he sense something in spite of her best efforts? And if so, what? Before he can ask any questions, a white flurry of ravens begins to wheel and dance in the skies


    37. Without waiting for an answer, Johan begins to make his way towards the flock of resting ravens


    38. This time the single word was reinforced in the mind by the echo of his fellow ravens


    39. The vast flock of ravens, his friends—if he could call them that


    40. One of the ravens was perched nearby, its feathers glowing silver in the darkness

    41. n the morning—I mean when the ravens return—I would like to name the boy


    42. The leader, the one who had tested him, was the last to arrive, taking his place at the head of the semicircle the ravens had formed around the little group


    43. Only the ravens kept their silence


    44. “Keep us from all harm,” he whispered, and felt the startled gaze of his two companions on his neck, the faint stirring of the ravens


    45. The ravens will be able to hold him for a while, but their strength will not last forever


    46. The crying of the ravens, the howling of the wind and, last but most satisfying of all, the shriek of wild hawks on the hunt


    47. The next heartbeat, his cry is cut off as the ravens cover both him and Tregannon


    48. So still he wondered, indeed fretted, about what the ravens might have done to him


    49. Ravens were useful to navigation


    50. The red-beaked ravens stood










































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    Synonyms for "raven"

    corvus corax raven devour guttle pig predate prey black ebony coal black jet black inky sable swarthy

    "raven" definitions

    large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail


    obtain or seize by violence


    prey on or hunt for


    eat greedily


    feed greedily