453 examples of ravished in sentences

There followed much talk of the nature of this treasure, whether it was to be sought or conveyed, bought, stolen, or ravished in fair fight.

from yon covert, where those towering oaks Above the humble copse aspiring rise, What glorious triumphs burst in every gale Upon our ravished ears!

the bright sultanas of his court Appear, and to his ravished eyes display 510 Those charms, but rarely to the day revealed.

Then in the midst a column high is reared, The butt of some fair tree; upon whose top A lamb is placed, just ravished from his dam.

So there is a reason for calling her the cockpit of the nations; but, as I said just now, I shall think of her as Europe's rag dolla thing to be clouted and kicked about; to be crushed under the hoofs and the heels; to be bled and despoiled and ravished.

If we so labour and be so much affected with the comeliness of creatures, how should we be ravished with that admirable lustre of God himself?"

The horsemen of Elam, her spearsmen and bows, Thy treasures have ravished, thy towers thrown down, And Accad is fallen, trod down by her foes.

His words opened superb vistas before the old priest's eyes; he was enchanted, ravished, yet full of doubts and fears.

I am ravished with your charms."

When this practice comes to be tried, then the sound of liberty will lose those charms which make it grateful to the ravished ear.

The right of petition ravished and trampled by its constitutional guardians, and insult and defiance hurled in the faces of the SOVEREIGN PEOPLE while calmly remonstrating with their SERVANTS for violence committed on the nation's charter and their own dearest rights!

The ship is wrecked, and Popanilla "having in his fright, during the storm, lost a lock of hair which, in a moment of glorious favour, he had ravished from his fair mistress' brow," is next introduced in search of this precious bijou.

Ravished and mystified, he walked softly to the dark, still edge of the forest, penetrated it a distance, then sat down to wait.

In Georgia the governor issued a proclamation in 1811 offering reward for the capture of Jess, a slave who had ravished the wife of a citizen of Jones County; and in 1844 a jury in Habersham County, after testimony by the victim and others, found a slave named Dave guilty of rape upon Hester An Dobbs, "a free white female in the peace of God and state of Georgia," and the criminal was duly hanged by the sheriff.

Charms that ravished and made drunkards of the eyes....

He was happy; happy enough, at being the object of so much attention; happier still in the bosom of a family of which he had always been the favourite and was now the pride; and happiest of all when he half ravished a kiss from the blushing cheek of Bridget Yardley.

Perhaps, 'mid splendor spread around, Which thou shalt see, and hear, Mother, may be the sweetest sound That strikes thy ravished ear.

Of these I reached a grain, which to my sense Appeared as cool as virgin-innocence; And like that too (which chiefly I admired), Its ravished whiteness with a touch expired.

Whenever she speaks, my ravished ear No other voice but hers can hear, No other wit but hers approve: Tell me, my heart, if this be love? Lyttleton.

In one respect, however, the Indians east of the Mississippi were better than the tribes of the plains from whom our borders have suffered during the present century; their female captives were not invariably ravished by every member of the band capturing them, as has ever been the custom among the horse Indians.

thou cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears; Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, And drive away my fears.

Who ravished and debauched their mothers and their grandmothers?

"So they went back to their castles, and robbed and ravished and rieved, even as did their fathers for a thousand years, thinking no evil.

" There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

Two little hours could span The gloom that bound me stark and grim (No melancholy pierced me through Before the 7.32 Had ravished Barbara from view),

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