Example Sentences
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How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little have they really emancipated us!
From The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Pater, Walter
However, in a field of serious endeavor, a discipline, he was able to see the flower in myriad events deflowered and plucked and beauty in the ugly.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
Jewish Law also punished this crime with death; but if a virgin was deflowered without force, the offender was obliged to pay a fine, and marry the woman.
From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
A rose of last October is a poor deflowered thing; but turn to the ice-bound garden-walks where, a month before, the chrysanthemum stood in autumn splendor.
From The Land of Long Ago by Hall, Eliza Calvert
