ravishment

How to use ravishment in a sentence

• His ravishment had suffered a sharp natural decline reflected in a mental gloom.

  Cytherea | Joseph Hergesheimer

• The ravishment of her beauty and her charm held him speechless.

  Romances of Old Japan | Yei Theodora Ozaki

• There the finishing stroke of ravishment is given to the toilette disarranged by a long drive through the impeding snow.

  The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Under-Graduate | Cuthbert Bede

• What this is, what this ravishment of happiness is, cannot be known or guessed till we ourself have experienced it.

  The Prodigal Returns | Lilian Staveley

• The other four kinds are—obtaining possession of a girl by purchase, fraud, ravishment or consent of the girl herself.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 4 | Various