ravager

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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

The ravager is at the gate, and there is none on earth to help us!

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Aunt Mary, if she had been pretty in infancy, had been spoiled by that dreadful ravager, the small-pox, which she had caught, through the carelessness of a nurse, when she was five years old.

From Aunt Mary by Perring, Mrs.

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 Chambers, R. W.