Reason is dethroned by sin; and the will is left unguided and unguarded to the rapes of sensual violence.
Rapes of Arundel and Chichester, and whom he afterwards made Earl of Shrewsbury.
The plot of Non Stop Flight is typical; hero Eric Leighton discovers his wife dallying with a lesbian, so he beats up and rapes the lesbian (juicily described) whereupon his wife commits suicide.
By the Law of Egypt, Rapes were punished by cutting off the offending parts;--The Athenian Laws compelled the ravisher of a virgin to marry her.
I see the massacre or captivity of our citizens, the rapes of our virgins and matrons.
Especially in Sussex, where the rapeshave recently been rearranged, this may make our figures too high[1355].
Who ever saw a young man seiz'd and bound For rapes and lewdness in a house of harlots?
Changes: Harper Who ever saw a young man seiz'd and bound For rapes and lewdness in a house of harlots?
Came here to-day, from home, to see what passes to-morrow at a Meeting to be held here of the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the Rapes of Lewes and Pevensey.
This is a petition to be sure; but it is no more the petition of the farmers in the Rapes of Lewes and Pevensey than it is the petition of the Mermaids of Lapland.
These principalities would then roughly coincide with the modern rapes of Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey, and Hastings.
Thus the rapes consist of six long longitudinal belts, each with a short sea front and a long stretch back into the Weald.
He will steale sir an Egge out of a Cloister: for rapes and rauishments he paralels Nessus.
I am not disposed to declare this assertion to be altogether false; though I will not vouch for the possibility of converting our Markish rapes into turnips or cabbage.
In the early and traditionary history of the Greeks and the Romans, rapeswere assigned as the most frequent occasions of war; and the sexes were, no doubt, at all times, equally important to each other.
Who ever writes of Thee, and in a stile Unworthy such a Theme, does but revile Thy precious Dust, and wake a learned Spirit 25 Which may revenge his Rapes upon thy Merit.
And, again, the most delicate biological modifications must be considered, for rapes and crimes of violence are most common when the temperature is high, and climate and barometrical pressure play a certain part.
It was the rapes that were his particular thrill; the murders were enjoyable, but more of a side effect.
Besides the wrongs done to women in marriage, those involved in promiscuity, infidelities and rapes become inconsequential in nature and in number.
Woman was and is condemned to a system under which the lawful rapesexceed the unlawful ones a million to one.
O quoth he long I haue liu'd sworne brothers in sensualitie with one Esdras of Granado, fiue hundred rapes and murders haue wee committed betwixt vs.
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