salvager

Example Sentences

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The putative savager seemed pleased with that thought, as he did with Palin’s entire presentation.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2016

Fiercer than tiger, savager than bear, In human guise an angel form appears, Who between fear and hope, from smiles to tears So tortures me that doubt becomes despair.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

The deeper, the narrower, the savager, the Alpine gorge, usually the fuller and the swifter the stream that runs through it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

"Not a thing, Ma'am—not a thing bigger or savager than a jackrabbit," declared Cowboy Jack.

From Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's by Hope, Laura Lee

Turning at the finish of my stroke, I saw that big spray-flipping comber about two lengths away, and dead ahead, looking savager than ever.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)