ravager
Example Sentences
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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves?the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once when an attempt was made to take some books from the grave of Ezekiel, the ravager suddenly became sick and blind.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin
An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various
It is an ascending shaft, tempting to an enemy; and some underground ravager might come this way and destroy the nest by attacking the row of cells at the back.
From Bramble-Bees and Others by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Thus was the soldier what he ought to be, the true defender, not the ravager of his country.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
