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Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
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A jet-black colour.
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Rapine; rapacity.
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Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Examples of ravens in a Sentence
Green and grey parrots, ravens, swallows and magpies are also common.
The hostile ravens carried out 18 combat air sorties from Saudi airspace and 14 combat air sorties from Kuwaiti airspace.
A pair of Ravens over the north facing scarp of the Downs between Saxon Down and Malling Down this morning.
Brigg's books include the Hurog series, Dancing with Dragons, the Ravens duology, When Demons Walk and many more.
Bears, wolves, foxes, goats (kokmet), wild sheep (arkharis), lizards, earth-rats, and a small rodent (teshikan), with ravens, eagles, wild ducks and wild geese are the other varieties principally encountered.
Here he drank of the brook and was fed by ravens, who night and morning brought him bread and flesh.
The most important are eagles, kites, vultures, falcons, owls, horn-bills, cranes, pheasants (notably the argus, fire-back and peacock-pheasants), partridges, ravens, crows, parrots, pigeons, woodpeckers, doves, snipe, quail and swallows.
Eagles are often seen, and in the arid and elevated regions crows and ravens are numerous.
Prairie-dogs, jack-rabbits, crows and occasional ravens, quail, grouse, pheasants and wild turkeys are also noteworthy in a rather scant animal life.
Antelopes, hares and occasionally the lynx, fox, deer, rats, vultures, crows, ravens, hawks, with lizards are other denizens of the borders of the deserts.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of color on the white ground, ravens circling above.
Elijah was fed by ravens... the widow 's cruse never ran out of oil...
On the rooftop of this building we noticed several ravens that had gathered there to watch us.
Ravens were unclean scavenger birds so better not to think about the bread and meat they would actually bring !
Trudging home, Fran Hunter 's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of color on the white ground, ravens circling above.
They take in a homeless foster child, Michael Oher, who goes on to become a first-round draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens.
Birds of prey are numerous and include eagles, vultures, kites, ravens and the carrion stork.
The birds include eagles - some are called lammervangers from their occasional attacks on young lambs - vultures, hawks, kites, owls, crows, ravens, the secretary bird, cranes, a small white heron, quails, partridges, korhaans, wild geese, duck, and guineafowl, swallows, finches, starlings, the mossie or Cape sparrow, and the widow bird, noted for the length of its tail in summer.
The rest of the journey was uneventful, with just a few Common Ravens and western bluebirds seen.
There were also some recently fledged juvenile Ravens on the island.
Very few hooded crows seen, a few Ravens on the drive from Sofia.
Overhead, Ravens may soar by while Swifts, Sand Martins and other early autumn migrants are already heading south.
What can it mean to ' consider the ravens '?
Elijah was fed by ravens... the widow's cruse never ran out of oil.. .
The rationalistic view that the word translated "ravens" should be "Arabians" is improbable.
The more important wild animals are a large wild sheep (Ovis poli), foxes, wolves, jackals, bears, boars, deer and leopards; amongst birds, there are partridges, pheasants, ravens, jays, sparrows, larks, a famous breed of hawks, &c.