"Abducting" Quotes from Famous Books
... could be. I suddenly realized how ready I was—how ready!—to have her back. I rebelled fiercely against John's decision that we must not take her with us on our return to the frontier; privately, I resolved to dispute it, and, if necessary, I saw myself abducting the child—my own child. My days and nights as the ship crept on were full of a long ache to possess her; the defrauded tenderness of the last four years rose up in me and sometimes caught at my throat. I could think and talk and dream of nothing else. John ... — The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... This bestial creature is in the act of abducting a beautiful woman. She has almost ... — Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts • Juliet James |