ravener:  ravener:
A plunderer; raven: to devour greedily; hence ravenous; from reave, rieve: to steal, to forcibly take; hence, bereave; hence the past participles, reft and bereft.
Lost Beauties of the English Language
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A beautiful person among the Greeks, ... A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty,or The Conduct of Life (1860)
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