deflower
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In the budding of youth, ere wild winds can deflower The shut leaves of man's life, round the germ of his power Yet folded, his life had been earnest.
From Lucile by Meredith, Owen
Individual inspiration was a sacred thing, which reality with its rules and prejudices could only spoil and deflower.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John
Or— Defames the sunlight and deflowers the morn.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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 they have emancipated us!
From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Pater, Walter
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
Whatsoever is fair there have they defiled and deflowered, and they wallow in our fair halls as swine strayed from the dunghill.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William
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)
He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe."
From Time Magazine Archive
More than one wife, she reminded herself, and more than one deflowering, because according to Tilia, the Tartars took several wives, as the Muslims did.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
