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

I know not what Thracian lord recovers his daughter from her ravisher; such are among the words they exchange: Father.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

Ah, God! she knelt to me as she had knelt to that other would-be ravisher and begged me for mine own honor's sake to bethink me of what I would do.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

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

The Great Horn Owl, however, causes many ravages among them; for when asleep at night the Crow is without defence against the ravisher, for whom, on the contrary, obscurity is propitious.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric