Dyson proposed creating forests of “carbon-eating trees,” engineered to suck carbon more ravenously from the air, and to keep it tied up in thick roots that would decay into topsoil, trapping the carbon. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In it, a cop (Steven Weber) saves a grotesquely disfigured young woman (Carrie Fleming) from being murdered, porks her, and abets her in ravenously disemboweling and devouring some cats and people. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But these miniature humans will eventually grow and begin ravenously consuming the Earth’s depleted reserves of aux pairs and psychotherapists. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Roubini is supposedly a notorious "party animal" and he likes the womens a little too "ravenously". ❋ Unknown (2009)
They also contain a satisfying page count that leaves me wanting more, but not necessarily as "ravenously" as I did with comic books. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Adam had been in the Second War; emerged bitter; devoured books "ravenously"; was at work upon a novel: "He had cast off his family. ❋ Vidal, Gore (1997)
Despite her food bowl being empty, she's not lost weight, and she's eaten from the refilled bowl but not ravenously. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The snails' engorged bodies extend far from their shells, and they eat so ravenously that they leave trails of excrement on walls and the ground. ❋ Arian Campo-Flores (2011)
Can you imagine how ravenously they would've rushed through their ideological agenda and changed America as we know it? ❋ Andy Ostroy (2011)
We took him home and put him in our laundry room, where he ate ravenously, drank a bowl of water, and went to sleep. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Spanish and Portuguese were at that time rumored to have discovered in the darkest reaches of the equatorial regions cannibals who, I am certain, would not have fallen on her more ravenously than would her own nobles had they been given the slightest encouragement to do so. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)
I have fed and ravenously, growing in power each time I killed. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)
Getting over the soreness but still ravenously hungry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On the platform at metro Hospital General, two teenage couples are ravenously making out. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)
"he pounced on [the food] [Ravenously]" ❋ Bilzoogus (2013)
Never [disrespect] Raven. Always and [cherish] the [moments] you have with her ❋ Akarunner (2021)
Friend: TELL ME!! [Who do] you have [a crush] on?!
Me: NOBODY!!
In [my mind]: Raven <3 ❋ Cyeriou (2022)
Raven ❋ Countrygirl17953 (2014)
[Happy birthday Raven]!!!
[I can't] [swim] ❋ Wertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm (2020)
[The Raven]
Once upon a [midnight dreary], while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-- Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;-- vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow-- sorrow for the lost Lenore--
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore.
And the [silken], sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-- This it is, and nothing more."
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I [implore];
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you"-- here I opened wide the door;-- Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "[Lenore]!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"-- Merely this, and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice:
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore--
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;-- 'Tis the wind and nothing more."
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least [obeisance] made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door--
Perched upon a bust of [Pallas] just above my chamber door-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore--
Tell me what thy [lordly] name is [on the Night's] [Plutonian] shore!" [Quoth] [the Raven], "[Nevermore]."
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning-- little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was [blest] with seeing bird above his chamber door--
Bird or beast upon the [sculptured] bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore."
But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered-- not a feather then he fluttered--
Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before--
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"[Doubtless]," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never-- nevermore'."
But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in [croaking] "Nevermore."
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my [bosom's] core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the [cushion's] velvet lining that the [lamplight] [gloated] [o'er],
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, [nevermore]!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, [perfumed] from an unseen [censer]
Swung by [seraphim] whose footfalls tinkled on the [tufted] floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee-- by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite-- respite and [nepenthe], from thy memories of Lenore;
[Quaff], oh [quaff] this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!-- prophet still, if bird or devil!--
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all [undaunted], on this desert land enchanted--
On this home by Horror haunted-- tell me truly, I implore--
Is there-- is there balm in [Gilead]?-- tell me-- tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil-- prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us-- by that God we both adore--
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant [Aidenn],
It shall clasp a [sainted] maiden whom the angels name Lenore--
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
"Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into [the tempest] and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
[Leave my loneliness unbroken]!-- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
And the Raven, never [flitting], still is sitting, still is sitting
On the [pallid] bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a [demon's] that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-- nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ❋ Is This Name Used? (2006)
[The raven] is 1 of my [Spirit] [Animals] & they're Gorgeous & Very Smart! ❋ Starchylde (2016)
[Jared]:dude I want [raven]
[Deshaun]:i know right ❋ Zachary1207 (2013)
who is that [handsome young man] [over there] [laughing like a hyena]?
that's my Raven ❋ Mxssquinn (2017)
Kevin: "[It's going] to be a dangerous night. I'm absolutely ravenous."
Ryan: "[Christ], I'm [worried] for the women at this party." ❋ BrysonStrong (2021)
