453 examples of ravish in sentences

After a little, shaggy, big-thewed ventripotent Pan will grow jealous, and ravish you away from me, as he stole Syrinx from her lover.

So prithee, O prithee take my poor letter an thou wilt ravish it from one so defencelessO beseech thee, take it!"

Your foes be in, to burn, to loot again and ravish!

a simple train, Yet so delightful mixed, with such kind art, Such beauty and beneficence combined: Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade; And all so forming an harmonious whole; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.

It is something very different, I know, from the nightmare of an international police of cosmopolitan scoundrels in nondescript uniforms, hastening to loot and ravish his dear Uganda and his beloved Nigeria, which distresses the crumpled pillow of Sir Harry Johnston.

Then it is to be seized by implacable jaws and swiftly run with about the yard in a feverish pretence that enemies wish to ravish it from its captor.

And all so forming an harmonious whole, That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.

The hearing of this is enough to ravish one's heart.

There every man his owne desires enioyes; Fair Lucrese lies by lusty Tarquins side, And woes him now againe to ravish her.

He would have dallied all through the summer, looking feebly for an opportunity to ravish a despatch-case which always accompanied Madame and which had become the inseparable and ostentatious "gooseberry" at their meetings.

He would, out of loyalty to his orders from Froissart, have tried to grab the despatch-case and ravish its secrets.

Drayton's sweet muse is like a sanguine dye, Able to ravish the rash gazer's eye.

why, there's a cadence able to ravish the dullest stoic.

Here's one will ravish me.

So that when 'ere wee circumvolve our Eyes, Such rich, such fresh, such sweet varietyes, Ravish our spirits, that entranc't we see None writes lov's passion in the world, like Thee.

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

He longs to ravish from the bless'd abodes The seal of heaven, the attribute of gods; To give his labour more than man can give, Breathe Jove's own breath, and bid the marble live!

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.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue did ravish."

"What war could ravish, commerce could bestow, And he return'd a friend, who came a foe.

While ravish'd fancy vivifies the form, While judgment toils to analyze its charm, While admiration spreads her speaking hands, The lofty artist undelighted stands; He longs to ravish, from the blest abodes, The seal of heaven, the attribute of gods, To give his labor's more than man can give, Breathe Jove's own breath, and bid the marble live!

In short, he can so exquisitely ravish or torture the Soul through this single Faculty, as might suffice to make up the whole Heaven or Hell of any finite Being.

And the Elector of the Jovelike brow, Holding a wreath of laurel in his hand, Stands close beside me, and the soul of me To ravish quite, twines round the jeweled band That hangs about his neck, and unto one Gives it to press upon my locksOh, friend! HOHENZOLL.

Only a glove I ravish from the sweet dream-creature's arm In passionate pursuing; and a glove, By all the gods, awaking, here I hold! HOHENZOLL.

I am confident There is no man so covetous, that desires To ravish our wants from us, and less hope There can be so much Justice left on earth, (T[h]ough sued, and call'd upon) to ease us of The burthen of our wrongs.

453 examples of  ravish  in sentences