Last night he had thrown a sop to the ravening, hungry beast, but that, so he now swore to himself, should not happen again.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
When the first wavering gleam came in the eastern sky it revealed the blackened fringe of the trees, their green waving draperies scorched and fire-eaten, where the fire, like a ravening monster, had half-consumed them and passed on.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
In the red glow of the great fires the forms of hundreds of excited savages, in all their wild paraphernalia, showed forth weird, monstrous, fantastic, as they went through their barbarous performance, and the thunder of the war-song gathered in volume, swelling up to the star-lit heavens like the fierce roar of ravening beasts.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford