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ravager

[rav-i-jer] / ˈræv ɪ dʒər /








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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

A grey bear visited the folds at Hleithargarth; many such a ravager was there far and wide throughout the country.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers

But that cruel ravager of ecclesiastical property, Bishop Cathedral.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

What a fury of destruction once the ravager is installed in the vegetable treasure-house!

From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall

Here, for intrigant and ravager, penitent and saint, failure and world-weary, was sanctuary—respite, if only for an hour, from sin and strife, passion and hate and self.

From The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller


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