despoiled

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 1910

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 Henry James 1879

The meaning of the word "despoiled" was also clear.

The Count's Millions ��mile Gaboriau 1852

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 2003

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 Heidi Waleson 2011

“After this great slaughter,” he exulted, “the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance raged marvellously.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

You see, labor has nothing concrete of which to be despoiled.

Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream 2010

“After this great slaughter,” he exulted, “the whole city was despoiled and burnt, as divine vengeance raged marvellously.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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 2010

If the economic man has defiled temples and despoiled nature, he has also preserved.

The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010