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Letter "R" » ravished
«He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
compliance, prevented, ravish, ravished, ravishing
«For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.»
«They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.»
«And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? / For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.»
«Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.»
«Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.»
«Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.»
«With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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affects, nod, ravish, ravished, the Monarch
«For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, / Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, / Poetic fields encompass me around, / And still I seem to tread on classic ground.»
«I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.»
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