She would cross in a hurry to the other side of the street, and wish when she got there that she had spoken to her molesters.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Helen eluded him, and darted forward, to find her way stopped by her persecutor's companion, when, to her astonishment, a third person gently pushed aside the form that impeded her path, approached, and looking mute defiance at the unchivalric molesters, offered her his arm.
"Lucretia, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
With the departure of the Ostrogoths we have seen our last of the Germans in the Balkan Peninsula; after 488 the Slavs take their place as the molesters of the Roman frontier on the Danube.
"The Byzantine Empire"
Charles William Chadwick Oman