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O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! / Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? / Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! / Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!

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

[…] then, when sunk on the down of usurped pomp, he shall have sufficiently indulged his meditations with what King he shall next glut his ravening maw […]

“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? […] ”

After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.

Diascorides sayth, that this roote being stamped to poulder, and being bespiced or bestrewed upon their meate, as flesh, and such other things wherwith they live, destroyeth and killeth the Panther, the Libard, the Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which live by ravening, and that whilst their meate so ordred is in their mouth.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.