Sentence:  A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to <WSD>ravish</WSD> me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian's eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father's castle was a customary thing. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To rape.