Which preposition to use with ravished
Remember, Sylvia, are my due; And all the Joys my Rival does receive He ravishes from me, not you.
How do you ravish with excess of Joys? Er.
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.
He appears however to be so ravished with this sketch of festive pleasures, or perhaps with himself for having sketched them so well, that he closes with a couplet which would not have disgraced a STERNHOLD.
But the more its image is ravishing to my imagination, the more I fear it is not real, and I refuse to yield to it lest my happiness be too soon destroyed.
I believed that he had never seen anything more beautiful than the petite palace of Honoria, or more ravishing than herself.
And when she looked at brave Gazul his deeds her grief renew; The more she sees, the more her heart is ravished at the view.
He adds, that he was so ravished at being thus treated like a Man, and at the Confidence reposed in him, that he never once abused it; nor could all the Insinuations of his Fathers Rivals ever get him to betray what was committed to him under the Seal of Secrecy.
Full many shall rejoice in thy ruin, as I dolorn women and fatherless childrenfair women ravished of life and honour!
They mean, by using the words "servile war," to convey the impression that there is to be a general slaying and ravishing throughout the South, on and after the first of next January, under the special patronage of the American President, who has ordered his soldiers and his sailors, his ships and his corps, to be employed in protecting black ravishers of white women and black murderers of white children.
A third course is the third heaven to him, and he is ravished into it.
Jovis violentior ira, cum tonat, &c. the voice of a mandrake had been sweeter music: "but he to whom I gave entertainment, was in the Elysian fields, ravished for joy, quite beyond himself."
"He is so ravished by your charms that he can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; and he professes to me, his friend and partner, that he must die outright, unless you take pity on him.
So many men, if any new honour, office, preferment, booty, treasure, possession, or patrimony, ex insperato fall unto them for immoderate joy, and continual meditation of it, cannot sleep or tell what they say or do, they are so ravished on a sudden; and with vain conceits transported, there is no rule with them.
He told a story, very quietly, of an old grandfather and grandmother murdered and their daughter ravished before the eyes of her tiny children.
She spent the remaining hours before train-time in donning her beautiful lace gown, and in making the woman within it as young and ravishing as possible.