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
An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 by Various
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
There was no highwayman, no menacing apparition of any sort, but the fear of some ghostly ravager had been real enough.
From Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan
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
