"woman" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Isaiah 40-55 prophesied that the Persians would carry off Babylonian women and cultic statues.
- They carried off the wealth and women and burned half of what they did not take".
- They also carried off several women, including Chryseis, who became the concubine of Agamemnon.
- A sorcerer took the form of a beggar and carried off young women.
- It is told that in 1768 a Dakota war party raided an Ojibwe village and carried off several women in their canoes.
- "They carry off women and sell them to the Others."
- The Taliban rampaged through the area in the summer of 1999, emptying towns, executing young men, carrying off women, burning houses, machine-gunning livestock, sawing down fruit trees.
- Forbids carrying off women under pretense of marriage (eloping).
- Wildlings come over the Wall or through the mountains, to raid and steal and carry off women.
- However, records indicate that the Mexicas were forced into servitude as punishment for raids by young warriors to carry off women from neighboring settlements.
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