Meanwhile the ravishers their crimes enjoy, And flying sails and sweeping oars employ: The cliffs of Rhodes in little space are lost, Jove's isle they seek, nor Jove denies his coast.
But late is all defence, and succour vain; The rape is made, the ravishers remain: Two sturdy slaves were only sent before To bear the purchased prize in safety to the shore.
With vowed revenge the gathering crowd pursues The ravishersturn head, the fight renews; The hall is heaped with corpse; the sprinkled gore Besmears the walls, and floats the marble floor.
Hence, though the four ravishers lay in wait, and actually effected a seizure, the Regent did not get his girl.
At Liza's house the ravishershad shown a certain modesty.
All along the street we saw it skip along in its jolting car; the ravishers scoffingly waved their hands, and mocked at us until they were lost sight of behind a screen of snow.
The prelates are ravishers of the churches; their avarice consumes all that it can acquire.
She is carried off by force, and I am preparing to follow and rescue her, if possible; but I fear my endeavours will be fruitless, since I know not which way her ravishers have taken.
But are you sure, said Arabella, it was not some other of her ravishers who carried her away, and not the person whom she has haply favoured with her affection?
What that beauteous Roman lady performed to preserve herself from violation by the impious Sextus, let us imitate, to avoid the violence our intended ravishers yonder come to offer us.
Cylenia and Martesia been like thee, the fair Berenice, and the divine princess of Media, had not so eagerly entreated their ravishers to afford them their company in their captivity!
Ye would not come and tear us from our ravishers while we were yet maidens, but now ye would separate wives from their husbands, and mothers from their children, a worse piece of service to us than your former neglect.
Among the ravishers they say there were some men of low condition who had seized a remarkably tall and beautiful maiden.
Were the ravishers concealed in the entrails of the earth, I would discover them, be they who they may!
He beheld the ravishershastening towards their horses, which were being held at a short distance by an Indian.
One of the ravishers fell, uttering an imprecation of rage.
The ravishers seized her; in the violence of the outrage they wounded her, and made the blood flow from a person, the sight of which would have softened the tigers of Mount Imaus.
Assisted only by two slaves, he put the ravishers to flight and carried home Semira, insensible and bloody as she was.
Then suddenly a door at the back of the hall was thrown open and by the grey light which came through the doorway I perceived the last of the ravishers departing.
Assisted only by two faithful slaves, he put the cowardly ravishers to flight, and carried home Semira, insensible and bloody as she was.
The ravishers seized her; in the violence of the outrage, they wounded her, and made the blood flow from a person, the sight of which would have softened the tigers of mount Imaus.
The ravishers seized her; in the violence of the outrage they wounded her, and made the blood flow from her person, the sight of which would have softened the tigers of Mount Imaus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ravishers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
