How To Use Despoil In A Sentence

Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
A caricature of greatness despoils the memory.
Britney Spears is being forced to give custody of her children to man-whore/baby-mama maker/Britney despoiler/my idol Kevin Federline. Archive 2007-10-01
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7

What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast? BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill'
The victorious army despoil the city of all its treasure.
She is being dragged backwards, away from the excrescence that despoils her bedroom floor, onto the landing. A MEANS TO EVIL
By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources.
But they were so attentive to us that there was no opportunity of stealing a thing until, having left Giton with them, I craftily slipped out of sight and sneaked aft where the statue of Isis stood, and despoiled it of a valuable mantle and a silver sistrum. Satyricon
They didn't tell you about the whole smallpox in the blankets and forced march to internment and despoilation of the forests part of that new arrangement, did they? The Sacred Domain
Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Page 7
And like I said, the prospect of despoiling innocence is the greatest lure of all. NIGHT SISTERS
Their place in the world has been stolen; they've been despoiled of their work and their land.
I feel badly let down by the council who should be the guardians of an important conservation area, not its despoiler.
Unfortunately, however, nations do not choose to engage in despoiling others, when the objective is strong and able to defend itself, but rather delays until the victim is under a handicap and certain to be more or less easily subjugated. The Efficiency of the Canadian Militia for Defence
The pollution caused by these companies despoils the environment for local communities, and some pollutants put wildlife and human health at risk.
The whole reference of his errand seemed to mark her for Strether as by this time consentingly familiar to him, and nothing yet had so despoiled her of a special shade of consideration. The Ambassadors
You see, labor has nothing concrete of which to be despoiled. Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
If you despoil a whole town, if you wreck the environment for thousands of people, somebody's going to describe you as an entrepreneurial genius.
Plastic and organic waste clogs rivers, despoils the environment and fouls the seas.
The environmental message is conveyed mostly through Jan Hartley's projections, which begin with the clear tumbling waters of a river and, over the course of the four operas, depict forests despoiled by logging and acid rain, smoke-belching power plants and pipes pumping sewage into rivers. Ring Around the Obvious
From the wicked who despoil me, My deadly enemies who surround me.
D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
And at the same time as risking their lives, the youngsters are despoiling one of the area's beloved landscape features.
The official acronym for the NATO commander is an obscure French word for ‘despoiler’. On A Boat | ATTACKERMAN
In addressing these and countless projects like them up and down the state, Californians have relied on CEQA for over 40 years to protect their communities and our natural resources from environmentally uninformed government decisions -- decisions that needlessly pollute our air, contaminate our water, endanger our children's health, despoil our wild lands, and undermine the quality of our lives. Joel Reynolds: Handle CEQA With Care
This is not a charter for despoiling the countryside.
It would negate the need to build these inefficient wind farms and put a stop to the despoiling of Scotland's landscapes!
Clearly, we've got a long way to go to bridge the gap between scorning the environmental despoilers and warmly embracing the eco-friendly. How Deep Is Your Eco-Love? Environmental Values Important in Dating and Mating Survey Says
Once upon a time, repelled (rightly) by Canada's treatment of First Nations people, and in particular the Ontario government's collaboration with Big Mining to despoil Indian lands and jail their leaders, she preached aboriginal revolution: Archive 2009-11-01
Many have reverted to despoiling the nearest remaining forest for firewood.
When I spotted a deer on a hike, I took it as a sort of assurance that not everything has been despoiled and that the natural order remains at least somewhat intact.
The ruling class is obnoxiously greedy, despoiling our planet and exploiting the people on it with a few bare restraints provided by popular pressure over the last century.
a _jugum_ [= jugerum, about two-thirds of an English acre] of land so bestowed on the "sacrosanct" Church has been taken away from her, and is unlawfully held by the despoiler. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
Barry is torn between kicking out the man who is about to despoil his daughter and taking his much needed rent money.
In his later films Pasolini preoccupied himself with the poetic, allegoric, and mystic in search of a purity of experience that he believed civilisation and modernity had despoiled.
Stronger, braver, and craftier than his brothers, he cherished the idea of despoiling them and his sisters of their possessions, and becoming the sole successor of his father. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
You need to detox from those voices, the work, the whole London despoilation. Robin Robertson on the second rate, what to read, disharmony, and Art
The only course left to us, is to do the impossible - to abandon the paradigm of capitalism that has defined our cultural, political and economic life for the past 250 years, and whose supremacy has led inexorably to the despoilation of our planet and demeaning of human existence. Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin: Our Oil Reserves Are Depleted; It's Time for Utopia
I don't think he'll get squat among them votes, but I think he can lull them so that enough will spend Election Day listening to inspirational radio at home, enough to despoil the Karl Rove math that so tragically disserved USA. Poll: Tight Race In Ohio
There a banana tree had been despoiled of its clustered fruit; and, beyond, it was evident that a similar event had happened to a breadfruit tree. CHAPTER XX
The facade is vandalised - not a single pane of glass remains and graffiti despoils the faience tiling - and also has extensive vegetation sprouting from the most unlikely places.
The Magic Bird came no more to the palace garden, and the precious tree was never again despoiled of its golden apples. Folk Tales From Many Lands
In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil Gawker: Defamer
Having huge 63 foot high telecommunications poles despoiling our environment is not acceptable to residents.
A civilization which values -- and indeed consistently rewards -- aggression and reckless self-seeking rather than team work, ethical conduct, conciliation and compassion will end up despoiling the earth for short term profit, going to war for oil and economic dominance, creating an obscenely rich 1 percent at the expense of an increasingly impoverished 99 percent -- and, perhaps worst of all, it will produce unprecedented levels of human misery and spiritual unfulfillment. Richard Schiffman: Nice Guys Finish Last -- Or Do They?
After sacking every one of the Darién's reducciones, desecrating the churches, and despoiling them of their sacred vessels, García regrouped his forces for a final, cataclysmic assault on Panamá City and Portobelo. The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari
However, lack of law enforcement in the area is leading to both visitors and investors despoiling the pristine area.
It isn't the money," he told her, "The main hurt comes from the wanton despoiling of so much beauty. Wolf House Burning: Page III
For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON
Theodore Roosevelt, said Brinkley, who is author of a volume on TR the environmentalist, "would have gone after BP as a 'despoiler of the gulf.' Black Water Rising
See the history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America: Robber barons, greedy monopolists, exploitation of workers, child labor, sweat shops, environmental despoilation in the name of profits, economic suppression of the working class, all for the miserly profits of a few big tycoons. The Wide Divide: You Are Being Ripped Off
These atrocities are despoiling our people and our paradise as hope dwindles.
Together they join to resist the Crushers of corporate-military power that seek to despoil their world. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Big Coal, 'Avatar' And Tu B'Shvat
Its collectivist structures impoverished people, despoiled the environment, crushed freedom. Times, Sunday Times
It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled.
Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity, despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance.
Unlike the brutish commander he played in "Avatar," Mr. Lang is a good guy here, dedicated to giving greedy, despoiling mankind a second chance to get things right. Slashers, Clippers and a Ghost
Or go to just about anywhere on that subcontinent where a Walmart is being protested for land theft, encroachment and despoilation. Epochal Transformation Accelerates as Global Financial Matrix Disintegrates
With a shortage of tribeswomen, and an insatiable lust setting our loins ablaze, we decided to form a raiding party, with the intention of despoiling the neighboring conan. com forums. Conan and the Horndogs!
They see the image of despoilers; they fear that humanity is a cancer spreading across the planet, endangering the existence of all other creatures. Deepak Chopra: What Mother Nature Is Saying About Us
At the one end, we are reminded what a ghastly thing is Homo sapiens: despoiler of the environment, parasite of the planet, who lords over the animal kingdom with arrogance and cruelty.
The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
Now, in his fantasy, he apparelled her like a man; and presently despoiling her of that habit, he gave her another of a nymph; which he took away also, to attire her with the ornaments and majesty of a queen; not leaving any raiment but he gave it unto her, either to make her wise or to make her a vaunting fool; and generally he imagined her to be grave, merry, discreet, subtle and virtuous, which parts are ill-befitting a fair comedian.
Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling. E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love
Peter Drucker called this vested interest in despoiling employees an "unforgivable social crime" on the part of America's management class. Good Times for the Bad Guys
The movie then jumps seven years, during which time Gordon has written a bestseller called Is Greed Good?, and his estranged daughter, Winnie Gekko (the gamine Carey Mulligan), has rejected greed in favour of green to join an online charitable organisation devoted to exposing environmental despoilers. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
But it felt like I'd taken a step beyond denouncing the polluters and despoilers, or waiting for politicians and corporations to have a sudden change of heart and mind. Marc Ian Barasch: Practicing 'Green Compassion': How Do You Stack Up?
The city is being given to the despoilers, speculators, land mafia and vandals.
But the challenge will be to bring the urban voter in particular, along with us, so that they realise that various popular images they might have, be it of the noble farmer or be it of the farmer as an environmental despoiler are wrong.
For good measure and in keeping with his employer's philosophy, Watt permitted commercial interests to exploit and despoil previously off-limits publicly owned wilderness. Edward Flattau: Reagan's Birthday Caveat
The meaning of the word "despoiled" was also clear. The Count's Millions
Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth. As the Earth Turns: How Environmentalism Has Evolved
Placentia had been ceded to the holy see as a dependency of the exarchate, asserts that the Greek emperors were justly despoiled of their rights because they had excited the people against God. A Philosophical Dictionary
Dying or not, Brooklyn was our despoiled, ramshackle, often darkly mysterious, occasionally downright venal playland. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON
The victorious army despoil the city of all its treasure.
“After this great slaughter,” he exulted, “the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance raged marvellously.” Bloodlust
But this is a compelling history, tinged with sadness, not only for the human suffering and wastage, but also at the despoiling of a unique and magnificent landscape and destruction of the nomadic way of life.
Raise the glass and toast the age of the despoiler. She Closed Her Eyes
Since arriving back, he said he seen numerous examples of beauty spots being despoiled.
Back in the day, it was all about Paris Hilton and her love tryst with the “Runaway Bride” and Lacey Peterson; and the way Michael Jackson and JonBenet, and whatever and ever amen, meanwhile our Constitution burned and the US went from appearing to be the great force for good in the world to a squanderer of trillions, murderer of millions and gleeful despoiler of the entire planet. Current Comedy 3/2/09: Fools' Rushin'
The true inwardness of this may be at bottom but that one of the suffered treacheries has consisted precisely, for Chad’s whole figure and presence, of a direct presentability diminished and compromised — despoiled, that is, of its PROPORTIONAL advantage; so that, in a word, the whole economy of his author’s relation to him has at important points to be redetermined. The Ambassadors
If humankind was able, finally, to make industrial progress without the factory conditions of the 19th Century; surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon.
So I propose that the Scottish Green party makes itself useful for a change and begins a campaign to stop the tartan despoliation of other people's places and stick to despoiling their own. What next? A stag weekend on Kilimanjaro? | Kevin McKenna
The city of greece and asia is despoil of their most valuable ornament.
It is a trap that causes us to be complicit, if not aware, with those who profit from our own noetic despoilation. Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos
The true inwardness of this may be at bottom but that one of the suffered treacheries has consisted precisely, for Chad's whole figure and presence, of a direct presentability diminished and compromised -- despoiled, that is, of its The Ambassadors
How can we have free elections, runs a classic line, as long as they despoil our sacred Islamic lands? The Arab Spring and The Palestine Distraction
They claim it despoils the environment and denies human rights.
With a shortage of tribeswomen, and an insatiable lust setting our loins ablaze, we decided to form a raiding party, with the intention of despoiling the neighboring conan. com forums. Conan and the Horndogs!
Expect the Obama campaign to tell its green funders how the Administration "saved the Grand Canyon" from corporate despoilers as the Presidential race heats up. Heavy Metal Politics
'Somebody Ended Up Ratting Me Out': Miley's Naughty-Photo Hacker Speaks In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil Miley Cyrus's e-mail account and posted scandalously skin-baring, kiss-blowing, Gawker
We can now despoil each other of countless types of assets, from a world away. The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog
Allow no man, under any pretense, to despoil you of your virtue. A Renegade History of the United States
The sandy beaches are being despoiled by an oil spill.
To tergiversate is to: a. restore a piece of land from a state of despoilment. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
Some of the country's finest beaches are despoiled during the summer, with discarded nappies, bottles, crisp packets and even animal carcases.
But it was selling out the McGunn heritage, despoiling your own - "he choked on the word - `birthright. THE TARTAN RINGERS
The privileged person avoids or repels taxation, not merely because it despoils him, but because it belittles him; it is a mark of the commoner, that is to say, of former servitude, and he resists the fisc (the revenue services) as much through pride as through interest. The Ancient Regime
The prelate indicated that even his own guileless grandchildren may become despoilers of the planet unless today's adults act responsibly.
There are no owners for this property but the nation, an indeterminate, invisible personage; no barrier other than so many seals exists between the spoils and the despoilers, that is to say, so many strips of paper held fast by two ill-applied and indistinct stamps. The French Revolution - Volume 3
And, considering that the hour – glass they turned from year to year was filled with the earthiest and coarsest sand, the Bleeding Heart Yarders had reason enough for objecting to be despoiled of the one little golden grain of poetry that sparkled in it. Little Dorrit
We face a planet that is despoiled and impoverished.
Together with their messy tangle of wires they further despoil the view through The Village already made unsightly by the telecom company's previous assaults.
The Mexican republic, declared Castillo, had been “despoiled, outraged, contemned” by the United States. A Country of Vast Designs
This is an assailer, and not debtor, a breaker and destroyer, and no sinner but a despoiler, we see him a judge but no beseecher, he comes for to fight and not to be overcome, a caster out and not here a dweller. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
The victorious army despoil the city of all its treasure.
But it was selling out the McGunn heritage, despoiling your own - "he choked on the word - ` birthright. THE TARTAN RINGERS
Peese soon got into trouble, however, and when a number of merchants who had been despoiled had succeeded in proving that his gunboat was a worse terror to them than the pirates whom he worried, he disappeared for a time. Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
A massive expansion of wind power involving thousands of new turbines will go ahead despite increasingly bitter wrangling over claims that they are despoiling Britain's countryside.
There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
It could have been hard, Varakov decided, for a man like Karamatsov" a despoiler, what the British before World War II in their days of empire would have called a "rotter" " to live with flawless beauty such as Natalia possessed. The Doomsayer
Sure, we see a little of this in real life: in communities where you might encounter spoiled rich kids growing up in lives free of consequence, or in the financial sector with corporate raiders and morally bankrupt execs despoiling businesses, annihilating the savings of the little guy, crippling the economy and leaving thousands without jobs, then walking away with fat bonuses and pensions. MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2)
In Patagonia" — Bruce Chatwin's eclectic jamboree of storytelling, anthropology, legend and polemic — is hostile to the those European despoilers so reflexive in their contempt for "savages. Fury and Terror On the High Seas
Dennis, who is a committed environmentalist, says Cheney has gotten a bad rap as a despoiler of the land, since he has often quietly worked behind the scenes, doing things like torpedoing prospective mines in Wyoming that would pollute treasured cutthroat fisheries. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
His rights cannot be established by possession from time immemorial, nor by innumerable and regular acquittances; he must produce the act of enfeoffment which is many centuries old, the lease which has never, perhaps, been written out, the primitive title already rare in 1720, [2229] and since stolen or burnt in the recent jacqueries: otherwise he is despoiled without indemnity. The French Revolution - Volume 1
Strange friend, thief, despoiler relying on one saving grace, one charity of memory, doled out. The Hidden Jester
And so for the sin that we have sinned against You by despoiling Your Creation, forgiving God, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement. Rabbi Lawrence Troster: An Environmental Confession For The High Holidays
It's as natural for a Hielander to despoil a Southron as for a goose to gang barefit. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
Despite the ongoing work of legions grinding out endless new and improved proofs that FDR was a despoiler of democracy and our economic system, it is worth remembering the reason virtually all serious historians rank him among the top three of our greatest presidents. Why Obama Is No Roosevelt
If the economic man has defiled temples and despoiled nature, he has also preserved. The Shrinkage of the Planet
It could have been hard, Varakov decided, for a man like Karamatsov — a despoiler, what the British before World War II in their days of empire would have called a "rotter" — to live with flawless beauty such as Natalia possessed. The Doomsayer
They say Canadian oil-sands crude, which made up about half of the 1.9 million barrels of oil a day Canada exported to the U.S. in 2009, is more likely to spill from pipelines and despoil land in the U.S. Oil-Sands Pipeline Fuels Concern
It is a trap that causes us to be complicit, if not aware, with those who profit from our own noetic despoilation. Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos
For some reason no looters had ever attempted to despoil this sublime vessel, perhaps because they feared some royal revenge. COLDHEART CANYON

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