Sentence examples for ravishing a from inspiring English sources
Elsewhere, the sonorities are ravishing, a series of sensual half tones and unearthly tintinnabulations.
IN 1275 an English judge condemned a man for "ravishing" a girl aged under 12, the legal minimum for marriage at the time.
Hendrix's music was a hellfire that swept across global culture, alarming the Three Ps (parents, preachers and politicians) and ravishing a youth ready, as youth always is, for something fresh.
The Look: Ravishing––a most dramatic metal collar and black ankle boots sharpen a showstopping red halter dress.
One pixie is assigned to each switchboard, and, from the sounds which come up over the extension when one tries to telephone between the hours of twelve and one, they are very old pixies who never were much good at steering a thistledown or ravishing a honey-suckle.
No one was heard asking, "Who was that masked man?" For years, Republican opponents of President Obama have been feeding the ravishing a skewered politics-on-a-stick, always cooked as Obama unconstitutional overreaches, with toxic dire predictions of doom, gloom, failure, and collapse -- the sky is falling and the world is coming to an end.
My guests and I ravished a plate of carne mista: elegant prosciutto San Daniele; the more robust domestic La Quercia prosciutto Americano; excellent salamis cured at Mr. Batali's family's salumeria, in Seattle; and smoky speck.
Called to the discovery of a corpse in The Potter's Field, the policeman breaks off to ravish a picnic consisting of "a loaf, a whole tumazzo cheese and a flask of wine".
I think, for me at least, it's the humour – quietly visual, where a joke might be the way Duck ravishes a slice of bread – and the way its tone avoids the usual force-feed of bonhomie.
Bebe, a gun lover, appears on the magazine's cover with her forefinger and thumb cocked; she tries to ravish a handsome male intern; eventually she pulls out of the magazine.
My friend Zev recently said that to ravish a woman is to feel that the scent of her, the taste of her skin, is the only thing standing between you and death.
