Sentence examples for ravisher from inspiring English sources

This puts some welcome spin on his role as the rough ravisher of the elegant Mr Federer.

Theseus may be, as Phèdre says, "the laughing ravisher of a thousand women" — Ariadne and Helen of Troy are among those he has kidnapped on his rambles — but Phèdre is the one he kept.

This lover of letters has "no music in himself": as a literary ravisher, he is impotent.

Albion! (1974); and, as Charles Underhill, he produced two 17th-century romps featuring Captain Fantom, a soldier of fortune described in John Aubrey's Brief Lives as a "great ravisher".

Titian has her surprised in bed and struggling boldly against her dagger-wielding ravisher.

We must know for sure that Ash was not, as he puts it to Christabel, "a heartless ravisher from out of some trumpery Romance, from whom you had to flee, despoiled and ruined".

When the newspaper first mentioned the substance in 1931, it called fluoride the "ravisher of living tissues and disrupter of bone structure".

The ravisher is so overcome by a craving focused on this particular woman that he cannot contain himself; he transgresses societal codes in order to seize her, and she, feeling herself to be the unique object of his desire, is electrified by her own reactive charge and surrenders.

And what's most extraordinary in that scene of sexual encounter is what precedes it: Sophie's inability to take comfort in the would-be ravisher's arms, which prompts her to stand against the arm of the couch and rub her crotch into it, in order to spark the stimulus that he can't give her.

The sessions at Mrs. Girard's studio, number 1 Fifth Avenue, are more serious than those at the Dojo Club, more devoted to the quelling of burglars arid ravishers.

In the 19th century, white Americans insisted they improved a wilderness wasted on violent Indians, but 20th-century revisionists recast American settlers as ravishers of a land better managed by reverential Indians.