Some might question the wisdom of this expenditure in a country that had been ravished by civil conflict, but there is undoubtedly a feel-good factor in Ivory Coast.
Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee–cup and saucer.
He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished.
The authorities in New Orleans have ordered a dusk-till-dawn on curfew as a powerful storm pounds the American city seven years after it was ravished by Hurricane Katrina.
One might imagine that the two ravished the thrill more than anything else because it is hard to believe that they could not strike a single duel-ending blow between them.
She has to believe that she's successfully summoned forth dionysus in hopes that he will ravish her, quite literally devour her, until she's lost into oblivion.
Byrd produced more than 500 pieces, ranging from ravishing church music set to texts in Latin (for private Catholic rites) and English (for Anglican services), to scores of songs and keyboard works.
And it's kind of classic summer read, in some respects. I feel like it's full of art and there's some quite explicit sex, and there's like ravishing landscapes and lots of delicious food.
In still nights the grass panicles and every leaf and stalk are laden with frost crystals, through which the morning sunbeams sift in ravishing splendor, transforming each to a precious diamond radiating the colors of the rainbow.
Then we may safely go back of it and view the crystal shower from beneath, each drop wavering and pulsing as it makes its way through the air, and flashing off jets of colored light of ravishing beauty.