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When the pandemic forced her shop closed in March, Myers, like many of her neighbors, was still steeped in debt from two floods that had ravished the city over the past four years.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2020

General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it so happened that it was a search party from Pesaro, seeking two men disguised as monks who had ravished the coffin of Madonna Paola di Santafior, what should they want of Lazzaro Biancomonte?

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

He picked up the remains of the journal from which Gladys had ravished a cosmetic of silken sounds.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

Instead of this, he fell into a violent passion with one who, like himself, had levelled his desires to the "claps of multitudes," and had ravished the larger share of the coveted prize!

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John