It is most real that I had a parrot, and taught it to call me by my name, such a servant a savage and afterwards a Christian and that his name was called Friday, and that he was Ravished from me by force, and died in the hands that took him, which I represent by being killed; this is all literally true; and should I enter into discoveries many alive can testify them.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
At his request, she went over again the story of the abduction, telling everything save the matter of the Ravished kisses.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
He just caught sight of the fact that these people, with their closely guarded privileges and esoteric codes, were fighting much more for their class than for England, that an England democratized and Ravished of her class system would be to them a worse place than an England defeated by a class-conscious enemy.
"Command"
William McFee