Sentence:  Thus lived this lazy Drone upon the Labours of the Industrious Bees; to his high Content, and their no small Trouble: to whom his Company was as Offensive, as his <WSD>Ravening</WSD> was Oppressive: nor could they get any Relief, by their complaining of him to the Keepers. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.