All 4 Uses of
ravish
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Ravished over her I lay, full lips full open, kissed her mouth.†
Chpt 8 *ravished = raped, overwhelmed or plundered
- Ravisher and ravished, what he would but would not, go with him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted.†
Chpt 9
- Ravisher and ravished, what he would but would not, go with him from Lucrece's bluecircled ivory globes to Imogen's breast, bare, with its mole cinquespotted.†
Chpt 9ravished = raped, overwhelmed or plundered
- But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
to rape, overwhelm or plunder