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Captivity & sentiment, cultural exchange in American literature, 1682-1861
The mother's status is analogous to private property, unavailable for exchange; whereas the virgin who ... The ensuing captivity effectively begins for Rowlandson with a violence directed against her motherhood, for she claims that ...
by Michelle Burnham
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series, Volume VI Jerome: Letters and Select Works
When the thirty tyrants of Athens had slain Phidon at the banquet, they commanded his virgin .daughters to come to them, ... Nicanor having conquered and overthrown Thebes was himself overcome by a passion for one captive virgin, ...
by Philip Schaff
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The Iliad, of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...
The virgin captives, with disordered charms, (Won by his own, or by Patroclus' arms) 34, RusiVd from the tents with cries ; and gath'ring round, Beat their white breasts, and fainted on the ground : While Neftors sonsuftainsa manlier ...
by Homer
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The Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism: Seder Moed
And they are subject to the claim against their virginity. A convert, a woman taken captive, and a slave girl who were redeemed or who converted or who were freed at an age of less than three years and one day — then- marriage contract ...
by Jacob Neusner
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Captive of My Desires
And her association with pirates had educated her about matters a young lady of good breeding would never know of until after she was married. So the only thing Drew was actually wrong about was the state of her virginity.
by Johanna Lindsey
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War in the Hebrew Bible, A Study in the Ethics of Violence
No man can ever be sure of who his father is, nor a conquering male that a non- virgin captive's child is his own. This is a culture in which the biological, visceral link to children must be certain, a hint that it is a culture, ...
by Susan Niditch
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Inside the Walls of the Israelite Houshold
And they are subject to the claim against their virginity. A convert, a woman taken captive, and a slave girl who were redeemed or who converted or who were freed at an age of less than three years and one day — their marriage contract ...
by Jacob Neusner
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Salzano's Captive Bride
THE PLAYBOY SHEIKH'S VIRGIN STABLE-GIRL 184 horses as they thundered over the parched sands. ... For a moment, she stood there, transfixed—for this was as beautiful and as reckless a piece of riding as she had ever witnessed.
by Daphne Clair
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The Riverside Chaucer
1364 Lat. gloss: “When the thirty tyrants of Athens slew Phidon at a feast, they ordered his virgin daughters to come to ... the city taken and set fire," [she was about to be taken captive by the Romans, she snatched up her children in ...
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry Dean Benson
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Captive flames, on selected saints and Christian heroes
Like so many Christian ladies of her time, she had taken, in imitation of our Blessed Lady, a vow of perpetual virginity. When you read of the Virgin Martyrs you must not think of that connection of titles as an accidental one; ...
by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
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