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  • TestFunda. com answers, Â Ravish, that is what the verbal section is all about.

    rediff.com 2008

  • "Ravish" can mean just "to carry off," in the Helen-of-Troy sense, but more often the law uses it to mean "rape."

    Forbes.com: News Kevin Underhill 2011

  • Neurosurgeon Ravish Patwardhan, M.D., of Shreveport, La., notes that computers and handheld devices emit radiation, which might be more harmful than other media, like TV, because they are used at very close distances.

    Do Computers Really Fry Your Brain? 2010

  • Neurosurgeon Ravish Patwardhan, M.D., of Shreveport, La., notes that computers and handheld devices emit radiation, which might be more harmful than other media, like TV, because they are used at very close distances.

    Do Computers Really Fry Your Brain? 2010

  • Wonder if Jeff Gannon frequents the “Ravish Room….”

    Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Ravish my soul, and bind my wandering heart to thee, Obama.

    CNN's horrific Obamamania. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Joyful Minutes -- ha? not yet, sure she is Dumb -- Thus wou'd I steal and touch thy Beauteous Hand, (_Takes bold of her Hand_) till by degrees I reach'd thy snowy Breasts, then Ravish Kisses thus,

    The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

  • What could make you approach me in this hostile manner, but to Ravish

    Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

  • Ravish our provinces, burn our houses, cut the throats of their unoffending inhabitants, in a word, complete your work.

    Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899

  • Ravish or kill -- it was all one to him, as long as by the act he liberated the suffering soul of savagery repressed for so long.

    Victory Joseph Conrad 1890

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