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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reave .
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Examples
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My gimmick will be a foot fetish and a toe collection reaved from dead hookers.
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Many can think craftily, like the female who reaved your holdings, Rolf Mariner.
The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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Many can think craftily, like the female who reaved your holdings, Rolf Mariner.
The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973
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Was he looking at me, at the reaved safe, or at the pathetic little reminder, which I was holding in my hand, of that long-ago Christmas present?
The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk
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He death-doomed had hid him, when reaved of his joyance
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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'Now am I well lighted here,' he said, 'for this is the very goblet which thy robber knight Sir Lancelot reaved from my brother, Sir
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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That all our gathered spoil was reaved and slaughtered,
The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles
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His peace of mind was nothing that they could turn into cash; and they seemed to have reaved him of nothing else.
The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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My father is since dead, and my Lady mother is left without help and without counsel, wherefore hath a certain man reaved her of her land and her castles and slain her men.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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And he hath reaved me of my land and the Valleys of Camelot without reasonable occasion.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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