ravisher
Example Sentences
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"Messiah" is still a potent ravisher of the musical senses, if the number of productions this month in Seattle is anything to go by.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2010
One would naturally suppose that the persecuted insect, gradually instructed by family misfortune, would exhibit anxiety at the approach of the ravisher, and would at least try to escape.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
Be not a Tyrant, A ravisher of honour, gentle Sir, And I will think ye such, and on my knees, As to my Soveraign, pay a Subjects duty, With prayers and tears.
From The Little French Lawyer A Comedy by Francis Beaumont
The resolute manner of Mr. Falkland, conjoined with the dread which Grimes, oppressed with a sense of wrong, entertained of the opposition of so elevated a personage, speedily put the ravisher to flight.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
He was but a speck of vain conceit, and lacked the reckless daring of the ravisher.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
