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
O goddess, turn, And smiling view the error of my fear; No brutal force, no ravisher is near; A harmless roebuck gave the rustling sounds, Lo, from the thicket swift as thee he bounds!
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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 Walter Savage Landor
There, wrapped in cloud of sorrow, pity move, And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
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 Katherine Kimball
