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  • We ran along city streets, landscaped avenues of a certain fallen aura, an out-of-timeness that was ravishing in its open regret.†   (source)
  • She's ravishing, with her auburn hair loose and wild, a red gown cut daringly low on her bosom.†   (source)
  • Magnificent, ravishing.†   (source)
  • "Your gaze encompasses all men, makes your most ordinary glance seem intimate, carnal," Dr. Ghosh had told her, "as though you are ravishing me with your eyes!"†   (source)
  • Your so-called ravishing, of course.†   (source)
  • Soon he was filling pages with observations like those on his small scholars and on the arrival of spring, with frequently sensuous responses to nature—to "soft vernal showers," atmosphere full of "ravishing fragrance," air "soft and yielding.†   (source)
  • Even those who were not famous were colorful, frequently ravishing, and generally engaged in one sort of performance or another.†   (source)
  • Had it been the desperate way he'd pulled the snug suit down her body, exploiting, ravishing as he went?†   (source)
  • And who is this ravishing young lady?†   (source)
  • Everywhere you look, nothing but ravishing.†   (source)
  • How could this infernal Nathan summon up the shade of Bobby Weed on such a ravishing day?†   (source)
  • "Ravishing," he said.†   (source)
  • She was ravishing in her new dress.
    ravishing = stunningly attractive
  • She's a ravishing, you know, brunette one minute and totally bald the next.†   (source)
  • Lord, I ain't seen nothing but ravishing and more ravishing," she said.†   (source)
  • Yall cause of all this trouble, all this ravishing.†   (source)
  • Yankees do much ravishing to y'all place?" she asked me.†   (source)
  • They give him ravishing smiles, the word has gone around that he is unmarried and with money of his own, although I do not think either of them would settle for a Yankee doctor if they could get something better; however they like to practise their charms and attractions on him.†   (source)
  • Ravishing?†   (source)
  • What Klara admired most was the seeming ease of address, the casually ravishing way Acey laid down paint.†   (source)
  • Putting lechery behind you, bend your passions to this ravishing vision that is in you, calling to be born.†   (source)
  • The noise of splashing water and giggles drifted down through the flimsy ceiling, then there were padding footsteps, more giggles, the sharp smack of what sounded like a playful paw upon a bare bottom and finally, incongruously, the ravishing sweet heartbeat of the slow movement of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony from a phonograph.†   (source)
  • From the single grime-encrusted window in my rear fourth-floor cubicle I could stare down into the ravishing garden of a house on West Twelfth Street, and occasionally I glimpsed what I took to be the owners of the garden—a youngish tweedy man whom I fantasized as a rising star at The New Yorker or Harper's, and his lively and astonishingly well-proportioned blond wife who bounced around the garden in slacks or in a bathing suit, disporting herself from time to time with a ridiculous,…†   (source)
  • Ravishing, ravishing, ravishing.†   (source)
  • I told her she looked quite ravishing like that, and she laughed happily.†   (source)
  • But what I am really saying is that the law is sweet when it is enforced and protects a million worthy careers, when it shields the infant, the aged, the helpless, the blind and the sensitive from the ravishing of men who know no law, no self-control, and no sense of reason.†   (source)
  • For country people, who only knew the dismantled tilting ground of Sir Ector's castle, the scene which met their eyes was ravishing.†   (source)
  • But it was no summer of a virgin's itching discontent; no summer's caesarean lack which should have torn me, dead flesh or even embryo, from the living or else, by friction's ravishing of the male-furrowed meat, also weaponed and panoplied as a man instead of hollow woman.†   (source)
  • [Enter MABEL CHILTERN, in the most ravishing frock.†   (source)
  • SECOND MARQUIS (with little cries of joy): Ah, gentlemen! she is fearfully—terribly—ravishing!†   (source)
  • For one ravishing moment Italy appeared.†   (source)
  • Your head is all I could ask, for that white bonnet with the rose is quite ravishing.†   (source)
  • A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed.†   (source)
  • "Ravishing!" he admitted.†   (source)
  • You look perfectly ravishing.'†   (source)
  • And a few feet from them near a deep window stood a tall and yet graceful girl of dark and by no means ravishing features talking to a broad-shouldered and deep-chested youth of less than her height, who were proclaimed to be Arabella Stark and Frank Harriet.†   (source)
  • It's the most ravishing spot, Marilla.†   (source)
  • …as I had felt before the white blossom, but now still more marvelling, that it was in no artificial manner, by no device of human construction, that the festal intention of these flowers was revealed, but that it was Nature herself who had spontaneously expressed it (with the simplicity of a woman from a village shop, labouring at the decoration of a street altar for some procession) by burying the bush in these little rosettes, almost too ravishing in colour, this rustic 'pompadour.'†   (source)
  • Ah, ravishing organic beauty, not done in oils or stone, but made of living and corruptible matter, full of the feverish secret of life and decay!†   (source)
  • And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, lady-like, critical; or ravishing, romantic, recalling some field or English harvest.†   (source)
  • [Ravishing delight overhead.†   (source)
  • …every moment in relation to the glass, while his thrusting red nose and swollen sarcastic lips endeavoured by their grimaces to rise to the level of the steady flame of wit that sparkled in the polished disk, and saw itself preferred to the most ravishing eyes in the world by the smart, depraved young women whom it set dreaming of artificial charms and a refinement of sensual bliss; and then, behind him, M. de Palancy, who with his huge carp's head and goggling eyes moved slowly up and…†   (source)
  • The harmonies of the orchestra picked up the easy strains and bore them on—and it was simply ravishing the way the whole ensemble repeated it now in a sweeping tutti.†   (source)
  • But her voice was wrung of its old ravishing richness; her eyes not aglow as they used to be, when she smoked cigars, when she ran down the passage to fetch her sponge bag, without a stitch of clothing on her, and Ellen Atkins asked, What if the gentlemen had met her?†   (source)
  • …of the sight of a face or a form which Swann had spontaneously, and without effort on his part, found charming, it was quite another matter when, one day at the theatre, he was introduced to Odette de Crecy by an old friend of his own, who had spoken of her to him as a ravishing creature with whom he might very possibly come to an understanding; but had made her out to be harder of conquest than she actually was, so as to appear to be conferring a special favour by the introduction.†   (source)
  • As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible.†   (source)
  • Can one be more white and blonde? are not her hands perfect? and that neck—does it not assume all the curves of the swan in ravishing fashion?†   (source)
  • It is ravishing!†   (source)
  • "She is ravishing," the Marquise Urbain resumed, looking at her sister-in-law, with her head on one side.†   (source)
  • "It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing," cried Annie, with a great sniff.†   (source)
  • For example, these ravishing ear-rings and this necklace so superb to correspond, were what one called a love-gift.†   (source)
  • And the truth is, that of all the delights of the Gardens; of the hundred thousand extra lamps, which were always lighted; the fiddlers in cocked hats, who played ravishing melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laughter; the signal which announced that Madame Saqui was…†   (source)
  • Her magnificent blond hair was plaited in a ravishing manner, she was dressed entirely in that sky blue which becomes fair people so well, a bit of coquetry which she had learned from Colombe, and her eyes were swimming in that languor of love which becomes them still better.†   (source)
  • To one of them I owe my knowledge and my proofs—I repeat it, estimable lady—proofs—of the ravishing little family history I go to commence.†   (source)
  • During the astonishing Chorus of the Prisoners, over which the delightful voice of the actress rose and soared in the most ravishing harmony, the English lady's face wore such an expression of wonder and delight that it struck even little Fipps, the blase attache, who drawled out, as he fixed his glass upon her, "Gayd, it really does one good to see a woman caypable of that stayt of excaytement."†   (source)
  • [65] "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"†   (source)
  • The truth is, that she was ravishing in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a bonnet from Gerard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way.†   (source)
  • All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible.†   (source)
  • To talk at great length with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest interest in the world; another proof that in that ravishing opera called love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue de Babylone; To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming in the grass;…†   (source)
  • Favourite, Dahlia, Zephine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman.†   (source)
  • In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and grandmothers, displayed at their doors fresh groups of children in disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, and who possessed the gravity of functionaries.†   (source)
  • In this guise ravishing Aphrodite said: "Come home with me.†   (source)
  • The Dardans were commanded by Aineias, whom ravishing Aphrodite had conceived under Ankhises in the vales of Ida, lying, immortal, in a man's embrace.†   (source)
  • This lovely girl was born to Marpesse of ravishing pale ankles, Euenos' child, and Ides, who had been most powerful of men on earth.†   (source)
  • …content sails on, a wiser man.
    We know all the pains that the Greeks and Trojans once endured
    on the spreading plain of Troy when the gods willed it so—
    all that comes to pass on the fertile earth, we know it all!'
    So they sent their ravishing voices out across the air
    and the heart inside me throbbed to listen longer.
    I signaled the crew with frowns to set me free—
    they flung themselves at the oars and rowed on harder,
    Perimedes and Eurylochus springing up at once
    to bind…†   (source)
  • As for myself, I was ravishing, was exquisite, grace itself, and I was a virgin!†   (source)
  • …muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses' feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.†   (source)
  • ] I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation: But I will never be a truant, love, Till I have learn'd thy language; for thy tongue Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, Sung by a fair queen in a Summer's bower, With ravishing division, to her lute.†   (source)
  • Can a man who by divine meditations is admitted as it were into the conversation of this ineffable, incomprehensible Majesty, think days, or years, or ages, too long for the continuance of so ravishing an honour?†   (source)
  • —Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.†   (source)
  • While his wanton fancy roamed unbounded over all her beauties, and his lively imagination painted the charming maid in various ravishing forms, his warm heart melted with tenderness; and at length, throwing himself on the ground, by the side of a gently murmuring brook, he broke forth into the following ejaculation: "O Sophia, would Heaven give thee to my arms, how blest would be my condition!†   (source)
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