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
"And that her pretended ravisher should bring her to France,—to Paris?"
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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
To see that fatal pledge of sea-command, Now in the ravisher De Ruyter’s hand, The Thames roared, swooning Medway turned her tide, And were they mortal, both for grief had died.”
From Andrew Marvell by John Morley
The brothers set off in pursuit of the ravisher, when Sramana, a female devotee sent by Vibhishana to Rama, calls for succour being seized by Kabandha, a headless fiend.
From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by J. S. Zemin
