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

Take it," said the piper; "and if I die,—and Nizza should happily be preserved from her ravisher, give it her.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair, While the Fops envy, and the Ladies stare!

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

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 Beaumont, Francis

"And that her pretended ravisher should bring her to France,—to Paris?"

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Sue, Eugène