509 examples of molest in sentences

Far off let idle visions fly, No phantom of the night molest: Curb Thou our raging enemy, That we in chaste repose may rest.

" With this she darted out, running at the top of her speed, heedless even of the peremptory challenge of the sentries, who thought her mad or stricken with the plague, and made no attempt to molest her.

"The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her solitary reign."

" <Harass, annoy, irritate, vex, fret, worry, plague, torment, molest, tease, tantalize.

Though there were many noxious animals there; yet so kind was our Almighty protector, that none of them were ever permitted to hurt or molest us.

"Let no hand the bird molest," Said he solemnly, "nor hurt her!"

I have witnessed that, which brought before my eyes your heroic tranquillity, inflexible to the rude jests and serious violences of the insolent soldiery, republican or royalist, sent to molest youfor ye sate betwixt the fires of two persecutions, the out-cast and off-scowering of church and presbytery.

Cape Breton has been found not to be impregnable; nor, if we consider the state of the places possessed by the two nations in America, is there any reason upon which the French should have presumed to molest us, but that they thought our spirit so broken, that we durst not resist them; and in this opinion our long forbearance easily confirmed them.

Whatever may have been the malignant animosity of Pashur, he was evidently afraid to molest the awful prophet and preacher any further, for Jeremiah was no insignificant person at Jerusalem.

What would dare to molest him, who might call, on every side, to thousands enriched by his bounty, or assisted by his power?

He then began to curse and swear, said that they should not have that room, and wanted to turn them out of it forcibly; but my friend Major G took up one of his pistols, which were lying on the table, and told the innkeeper that if he did not cease to molest them and instantly quit the room, he would blow out his brains.

Every intelligent man among you knows very well that this Government has never, directly or indirectly, sought to molest you in your worship, to control you in your ecclesiastical affairs, or even to influence you in your religious opinions.

"What would dare to molest him?"Dr.

I seize Wild Ducks and other game birds, hares, rabbits, fawnsyes, and young calves also, if House People make their dwellings near me and bring cattle into my fortress; but if they keep away from me, I never molest them.

The Indians did not molest Miller, but sought to obtain delay, and would give no definite answer; whereupon Wayne advanced against them, having laid waste and destroyed all their villages and fields.

The frontiersmen did not molest them in any way or trespass upon their lands; yet their ravages continued without cessation.

So disheartened were they by the check, and by the loss they had suffered, that they did not further molest the settlements, but fell back to their strongholds across the Tennessee.

Under the influence of this sentiment, an order had been passed through the sentries, not to molest their prisoner by too frequent or unnecessary an examination of the state-room.

I never would molest thee, Ghita, in thy gentle worship.

To these may be added a few men of weak character, and unsteady principles, who remain in office because they fear to resign; with a few, and but very few, ignorant fanatics, who really imagine they are free because they can molest and destroy with impunity all they have hitherto been taught to respect, and drink treble the quantity they did formerly.

When mighty Puru's offspring sways the earth, And o'er the wayward holds his threatening rod, Who dares molest the gentle maids that keep Their holy vigils here in Kanwa's grove?

No let him Enjoy his shame too: with his conscious life, To shew how much our innocence contemns All practice from the guiltiest, to molest us.

Our little train of five wagons, ten men, one woman and three children would not be a formidable force against the Indians if they were disposed to molest us, and it looked to me very hazardous, and that a larger train would be more safe, for Government troops were seldom molested on their marches.

But, though several servants had ventured in with frightened faces, none dared molest the giant.

I can make such revelations concerning those in high placesay, in the highest places," he added, with a vindictive look at Buckingham, "that they will not dare to molest me.

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