The Magic Bird came no more to the palace garden, and the precious tree was never again despoiled of its golden apples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Tales From Many Lands] Reference

Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference

Chilled thy sweet woodland home, now quite despoiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

All are gone! my attic is despoiled, silent and solitary!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Have they despoiled its wealth or diminished its grandeur?.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

Until the sacrilegious hand of the late Lord Elgin despoiled Athens of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Jews, who were despoiled of their possessions and driven from their homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

She gave one look at her despoiled flower-bed and bent again over the lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

Monarchical power despoiled the people's liberties, and tyranny became rampant.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Many hundreds more were reduced to poverty, having been despoiled of everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

Spartans, when the despoiled is an enemy, or at least a member of another tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference

Japan after the war with China, but despoiled of it by Russia's peaceful absorption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

And he displayed his left hand despoiled of two fingers, which had just been cut off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

These men have despoiled for money the life of a whole continent in a few short years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Now that Abraham Lincoln's bedroom has been despoiled, maybe his spirit can be stirred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping It In The Bedroom] Reference

Destroy this persuasion, and virtue is despoiled of its loveliness, vice of its deformity.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Calvinism] Reference

The nations who persecuted and despoiled the sons of Abraham have been despoiled themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

We have run up debts, despoiled the planet and allowed too many of our institutions to wither.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics blog live - Thursday 9 September] Reference

She was old, and she saw only romance shattered into fragments, youth despoiled of its heritage, love crucified.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

At Kadis (Kedesh Naphtali) I found that much of the principal and beautiful temple had been lately despoiled by our late host of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byeways in Palestine] Reference

An innumerable host of these wretched people came forth from their former homes, weeping, and despoiled of all their possessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

At the end of a short time Inca Viracocha died of grief at the death of Inca Urco, deprived and despoiled of all honour and property.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

This was the question he was asking as he stood by his despoiled garden, and the answer began to come to him in a shadowy sort of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

CROATIAVinesweepersIt's the least heralded victim of Croatia's war with Serbia: the nation's wine country, left despoiled by land mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The land was overspread with an innumerable swarm of begging friars, who fawned on the great, flattered the wealthy, and despoiled the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

He is walking upon the terrace planted with lindens that are now more than half-despoiled of their leaves, admiring the beautiful picture and thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Sergius; for though the excellence of his viands and wines was proverbial, the ease with which he could be despoiled at the gambling table was not less so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

'England was despoiled by her own victories; luxury and poverty increased at the extremes of society, and the balance of the better mediævalism was lost.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

I was rebellious at thus being despoiled of my poetic mood and tried to regain lost ground, but erelong another turn and Durkee's Scotch Whiskey again appeared!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

When the homes of the wealthy were raided and despoiled of their valuables, my master confided in me, and together we contrived a secure hiding place for the jewels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference

Also on stage is Enric Sala, a marine ecologist and a fellow at the Geographic who's explored some of the last pristine places in the ocean - and many despoiled places, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorers Assess The Health Of The World’s Oceans] Reference

My sisters are angry with me that I allowed her to strip the house of everything that had possessed a moneyed value, and think it shameful that I despoiled her of her jewels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference