"Raped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there, the Sabine dames Amid the crowded theatre he viewed, Raped by the Romans at the Circus games; The sudden war, that from the deed ensued, With aged Tatius and his Cures rude. There stand the kings, still armed, but foes no more, Beside Jove's altar, and abjure the feud. Goblet in hand, the sacred wine they pour, And o'er ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... did evolve And on the scroll of Fame hath writ those laws Which Time, relentless, ne'er can thence efface. For Truth, immutable, is there entombed. But he, in flawless mental armor robed, Did crusade make where Science hath her home, And from her vaults where Truth was close entombed He raped their locks and brought the treasure forth. Long mankind groped in darkness, nor did dream That laws harmonious could measure space And count the cycles that should hail return Of each recurring comet on its round. Thus deep uncertainty ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
... predilection on three grounds: Ireland had been taken from him; Ireland had been so ruined and raped by the Scotch and the English that nothing but the soul of Ireland was left for Irishmen to love. He could work and fight for Ireland better in London than in Dublin. And again, the Irishman in England can ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair |
