77 collocations for ravished

CXLVI O thou who hast ravished my heart by thine exquisite grace and thy shape, Thou carest for no one, and yet not a soul from thyself can escape.

She stood before the king in a web of fine raiment, and ravished his eyes beyond measure.

Your Brother! by Fortune, he's so leud, that should I he so unconscionable to leave thee a Virgin but this Night, he wou'd ravish thee himself, and that at cheaper Rates than I design to do it.

Lamartine, in his sentimental and rhetorical exaggeration, speaks of him as "the Ossian of France,an aeolian harp, producing sounds which ravish the ear and agitate the heart, but which the mind cannot define; the poet of instincts rather than of ideas, who gained an immortal empire, not over the reason but over the imagination of the age.

Despite the heat of the candles, the intensity of the emotions, the gold and silver vases, the fumes of wine, despite the vision of ravishing women, perhaps there still lurked in the depths of the heart a little of that respect for things human and divine which struggles until the revel has drowned it in floods of sparkling wine.

Over the head of Honoria appeared a cloud, at first black, and soon in this a nucleus of light, which expanded and shaped itself into an image and took the form of the sleeper, nude and spiritual, a belt of rosy mist enveloping and concealing all but a head and bust of ravishing beauty.

If ordinary beauty have such a prerogative and power, and what is amiable and fair, to draw the eyes and ears, hearts and affections of all spectators unto it, to move, win, entice, allure: how shall this divine form ravish our souls, which is the fountain and quintessence of all beauty?

If I were to break such an oath as that, they would burn my house, steal my cattle, ravish my wife, and hunt me to the death.

The former, because she had rebuked him for something, he forced to seek death by her own hand; and after ravishing all his sisters he shut two of them up on an island: the third had previously died.

Then was he married to a maiden most beautiful and chaste, so lovely to behold that she ravished the senses, and he lived like one in a dream.

What would you do, if the brutal lull of an Appius ravished from your arms an only daughter?

How ravishing the music and the chants of grand ceremonials!

Ajax the Less, son of Oïleus, either ravished or attempted to ravish Cassandra (the story occurs in both forms) while she was clinging to the Palladium or image of Pallas.

Sublime madness, ravishing delirium, delicious frenzy.

It was Aeneas's countenance ravished Queen Dido, Os humerosque Deo similis, he had an angelical face.

Out of sight in there the loiterer came at startling moments face to face with banks of splendid bloom in ravishing negligeeDiana disrobed, as it were, while that untiring sensation-hunter, the mocking-bird, leaped and sang and clapped his wings in a riot of scandalous mirth.

Whose chiming Muses never fail'd to sing A Soule-affecting Musicke; ravishing Both Eare and Intellect, while you do each Contend with other who shall highest reach In rare Invention; Conflicts that beget New strange delight, to see two Fancies met, That could receive no foile: two wits in growth So just, as had one Soule informed both.

At any rate, the oldest Foxhound or Harrier that has never touched otter is at once in ravishing excitement on it, and all dogs will hunt it.

Nor would he ravish fame; but left men free To their owne Vote and Ingenuity.

The picture ravished my fancy.

Although the play of passions had ravished her features, she retained certain traces of a fine complexion, which suggested that the figure conserved some fragments of beauty.

Will as familiarly kiss the King['s] horses As they pass by him: ready to ravish his footman.

The Madonna figured prominently in Marescotti's creed, spite of his belief in the stern precepts of Savonarolathe plastic creed of an artist, made up of heavenly eyes, ravishing forms, melodious sounds, rich color, sweeping rhythms, moonlight, and violent emotions.

So a slave debauched his mistress in the presence of his master and a gladiator ravished a girl of noble family while her father looked on.

Against her will fair Julia to possess, Is not to enjoy, but ravish happiness:

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