How To Use Despoiled In A Sentence
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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
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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
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If the economic man has defiled temples and despoiled nature, he has also preserved.
The Shrinkage of the Planet
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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
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There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
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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
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The Mexican republic, declared Castillo, had been “despoiled, outraged, contemned” by the United States.
A Country of Vast Designs
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We face a planet that is despoiled and impoverished.
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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
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Some of the country's finest beaches are despoiled during the summer, with discarded nappies, bottles, crisp packets and even animal carcases.
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The sandy beaches are being despoiled by an oil spill.
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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
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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
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Since arriving back, he said he seen numerous examples of beauty spots being despoiled.
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“After this great slaughter,” he exulted, “the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance raged marvellously.”
Bloodlust
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Dying or not, Brooklyn was our despoiled, ramshackle, often darkly mysterious, occasionally downright venal playland.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
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The meaning of the word "despoiled" was also clear.
The Count's Millions
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The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
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It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled.
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Its collectivist structures impoverished people, despoiled the environment, crushed freedom.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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You see, labor has nothing concrete of which to be despoiled.
Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
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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
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Their place in the world has been stolen; they've been despoiled of their work and their land.
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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
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By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources.