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«She made a ravishing corpse.»
Author: Ronald Firbank | Keywords: corpse, ravish, ravishing
«He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.»
«Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.»
«For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.»
«They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: ravish, ravished, ravishing
«And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? / For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: goings, ravish, ravished, ravishing
«Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: breasts, hinds, ravish, ravished, ravishing, roe, roes
«Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: dashed, ravish, ravished, ravishing, spoiled
«For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.»
«I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.»