Sentence example with the word 'ravings'

ravings

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Although some of his quatrains are purely mystic and pantheistic, most of them bear quite another stamp; they are the breviary of a radical freethinker, who protests in the most forcible manner both against the narrowness, bigotry and uncompromising austerity of the orthodox ulema and the eccentricity, hypocrisy and wild ravings of advanced Sufis, whom he successfully combats with their own weapons, using the whole mystic terminology simply to ridicule mysticism itself.   [Please select]

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Instantly a winter-wren, as though at a signal, went into ecstatic ravings.   [Please select]

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Just then the bull stopped his ravings, turned his head, and stared away up the road.   [Please select]

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These and other reminiscences gave me sufficient food for reflection, and many a shudder over the possibilities of my ravings.   [Please select]

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Calendar's ravings were abrupted as if his tongue had been paralyzed.   [Please select]

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Yet it was almost as bad indoors to have to sit and listen by the hour to its ravings.   [Please select]

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"I suppose," said she, abruptly, confronting Aunt Lucy, "that you are fool enough to believe her ravings."   [Please select]

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The wind and rain beat upon the house, and his ravings disturbed no one.   [Please select]

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The absurdities of Rousseau can be detected in the ravings of the ultra Transcendentalists, in the extravagance of Fourierism, in the mock philanthropy of such apostles of light as Eugene Sue and Louis Blanc.   [Please select]

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From scattered bits of his ravings they learned what he had endured on the island and how, when the black sand began to burn him, he had had to give up working on it.   [Please select]

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