ravager
Example Sentences
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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
To his fame, it would have erected no auxiliary monument to have invaded, like the ravager of Egypt, an innocent though barbarous nation, to inscribe his name on the pillar of Pompey.
From Washington's Birthday by Robert Haven Schauffler
But that cruel ravager of ecclesiastical property, Bishop Cathedral.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The Squire was the only man, at first, who durst bid defiance to the general ravager.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
