Violated

Examples

• The terms of the truce had been violated before, when teams had been sent into the city to bring out supplies for the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It has never been violated, on their part or ours, till now. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But now she was not to be violated and ruined. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He looked rather comical, blinking and trying to be in the scene, when emotionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Think you, amidst the shrieks of violated innocence and helpless infancy, I did not feel in every nerve the cry of a fellow being? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She half felt as if, in opening it, she had violated a confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A fierce flash and sharp crack violated the calm of night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Both these having violated nature, their natural likings and antipathies are reversed; they grow altogether morbid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Very well,' said the magistrate, drawing himself up proudly, 'it shall not be violated in this portion of his dominions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Only assure me that your love and faith towards me have never been violated; and suspicion, and doubt, and jealousy will at once be dispersed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There is aspic venom in the thought--promise me that my secret shall not be violated by you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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