ravisher
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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
"And thou, creature of guilt and misery," said Cedric, "what became thy lot on the death of thy ravisher?"
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Gods! shall the ravisher display your hair, While the Fops envy, and the Ladies stare!
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
But the would-be ravisher is confounded by the Holy Virgin, the protectress of innocence, and takes the pots and kettles and pans for the maidens.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
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
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