Ravished Quotes

With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres. - John Dryden

When the evacuees arrived here from New Orleans and other Katrina ravished areas, they had nothing. - Pam Davis

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. - Bible

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. - Bible

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. - Bible

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? - Aubrey Beardsley

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. - Lord Byron

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. - Henry Fielding