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
It is, however, evident to any reader of the Charette episode, whether in the original French prose and verse or in Malory, that Meleagraunce the ravisher and Lancelot the avenger cannot have the same original.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
In the absence of their ravisher, the Deacon Modernus arrived, by order of the Bishop, to knock at their door, answering that he came to set them free.
From The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 by D. B. Stewart
The brothers set off in pursuit of the ravisher, when Sramana, a female devotee sent by Vibhishana to Rama, calls for succour being seized by Kabandha, a headless fiend.
From Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by J. S. Zemin
Thus spoke the ravisher, and as he spoke he assumed, although alone, a firmer stride and a more haughty crest.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin
