What little bit survives a couple of hundred years of human ravishment, that is!. From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
Mack Mitchell's "ravishment" of teenage Tibetan refugees eh Desmond?. From Wordnik.com. [Ministers and Professional Ethics] Reference
I behold the light with a kind of ravishment, and all the rest of the day I am happy. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
1102: "It means not exactly the same as our word ravishment, but the violent removal of a woman to. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
I looked at her, in the light of the ravishment lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Guardsman Of Gor]
And what a prelude it is to their subjugation and ravishment. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
Kelly sort of gawked in surprise at the ravishment behind her. From Wordnik.com. [Tours of the Black Clock] Reference
I had refilled the ravishment lamp and then had had her relight it. From Wordnik.com. [Guardsman Of Gor]
But it hit me that I now had the perfect excuse to avoid ravishment. From Wordnik.com. [DearlyDevotedDexter]
“She would be sure to suffer gross indignities—ravishment among them.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Her very name was a ravishment -- a name of spring and flowers and pure bright skies. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
A little while after, the fact of the ravishment of his wife was reported to Utathya. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Ms R herself once submitted to ravishment after being serenaded with Shelley for an hour. From Wordnik.com. [To Wit, To Woo] Reference
With her own hands I had forced her to spread the furs of love and light the ravishment lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Guardsman Of Gor]
Except for the Boskonian base the planet was a scene of desolation and ravishment indescribable. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
I thus, being granted the permission of my use master, tasted the fruits of my own first ravishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Your beauty fills me with wonder, your understanding with ravishment, and your goodness with adoration!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
He forgot all about the distinguished wits whom he had expected to see in his ravishment over the glees. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
For him it was always the first time that they met, always the same fresh ravishment to look in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
"Actually, it's your kilt that makes me want to fling you to the floor and commit ravishment, " I told him. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Oberon accuses Titania with being in love with Theseus and assisting him in the ravishment of antique beauties. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
What is it about Chris Matthews' show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling and necrophiliac ravishment?. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
An example of this might be a ravishment in which a masked stranger like Zorro comes and takes her against her will. From Wordnik.com. [Mama Gena’s Marriage Manual] Reference
No, if Madame de Vionnet compassed THAT, compassed the ravishment of the Pococks, Madame de Vionnet would be prodigious. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Mr. Lane said according to recent reports in the media, Energy East continues its economic ravishment of Tompkins County. From Wordnik.com. [Living in Dryden: What's up at NYSEG?] Reference
" I did the Met operas because I wanted to see what it ' s like, and full-out singing is like a ravishment, " she told me. From Wordnik.com. [Each Time They Roam, Chicago Calls Them Home] Reference
He moved his hips against me in imperious command, and I felt my legs open for him, my gates thrown wide to welcome ravishment. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
You may very well imagine that Ceres at the ravishment of her daughter Proserpina was not more attristed, sad, nor mournful than they. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Formerly, proud of the might of his own arms, the heroic Rukmi could not tolerate the ravishment of his sister Rukmini by wise Vasudeva. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I lose myself in ravishment before the marble and the pink. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Boy and Others] Reference
But how am I to describe to you the peace and ravishment of that face?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
They showed thy lovely face and railed At her whom ravishment assailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
Irritation at the mad ravishment of his pill-box rendered him incredulous. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
No, if Madame de Vionnet compassed THAT, compassed the ravishment of the Pococks, Madame de. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
He drove into a town royally decorated, and still humming with the ravishment of the Tory entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
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