What matter if their modes of capture Denude the land of every bird? Whole regions, where they once abounded, Are now as silent as the tomb; The birds have vanished,slain or wounded, Pursued, by thousands, to their doom.

[Footnote 2: Thus the Monagas, the late rulers of Venezuela, are accused of denuding their country of specie in order to accumulate a vast treasure abroad in expectation of a rainy day.]

He not only suffered the abbey to fall into decay, but, as far as lay in his power, alienated the land which should have kept it in repair, and denuded the estate of the timber.

" This was done, and young Lucius also took a summons from the Bishop to the deacons of the Church in the town, authorising the use of the sacred vessels to raise the ransom, but almost all of these had been already parted with in the time of a terrible famine which had ravaged Arvernia a few years previously, and had denuded all the wealthy and charitable families of their plate and jewels.

About two weeks ago, my client returned to Paris from a stay at her château in Normandy to find that he had almost denuded the town house.

The demand for re-enforcements to the armies engaged in America could only be met by denuding the British islands themselves of their necessary garrisons.

We finished the dish with such lightning rapidity that our host boiled us a number of eggs, which, I fear, denuded his larder.

He did not like to think that he had denuded this man who had been his partner of everything in order that he himself might be unnecessarily rich.

His obedient Afreets toiled on, denuding the plateaux of their soil, washing it away from every slope and peak, pouring it year by year into the cañons, and whirling it on to the ocean.

"In reply to your letter to hand, we are very sorry for the delay in sending the Jumper, but the tremendous demand for these has denuded our stock.

These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing womenparticularly in the Jewish quarterto all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed.

But during all these busy and tremendous months of war Germany has not only been denuding Turkey of her food supplies, for the sake of the Pan-Turkish ideal; in the same altruistic spirit she has been vastly increasing the productiveness of her new and most important colony.

At the time only eighteen vessels were available, and these could only be obtained by denuding the North Atlantic entirely of cruisers.

Its 'fratricidal butchery' denuded the Mohawk valley of most of its male population; and it was said that if Tryon county 'smiled again during the war, it smiled through tears.'

They suppose that the more food the young creature consumes, the sooner it will be fat, and they allow it no exercise whatever, for fear it should denude its very bones of their flesh.