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

Her attitude and air were those of Diana as she bent her good bow against the ravisher Orion.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

He that would view Nature in her undress, and partake of her internal treasures, must proceed with the resolution of a robber, if not a ravisher.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

And of the strong city built on the little island in the Seine who could have been its founder but the ravisher of fair Helen—Sir Paris himself?

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

The vulture from his slumber woke And heard the words which Sítá spoke He raised his eye and looked on her, Looked on her giant ravisher.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)