325 examples of bereave in sentences

" "O good youth," supplicated the now terrified and humbled old man, "bereave me not of the source of all my power.

Bereave Egypt of its Homer!

He then bethought himself of alleging his distemper as an excuse; and asserted that those who are under its influence are apt to find their faculties fail them when they speak standing, a trembling and giddiness coming upon them, which bereave them of their senses.

hath he not Sought to suppresse your Poem, to bereave That honour every tongue in duty paid it.

Unkind that kind that kindnesse doth bereave: Thou saist thou lovest me? Eu.

In the first moment of his vexation he imprudently cried out, "Would ye, then, also bereave me of my place; I, who am a Spaniard?"

None thereof worthy be, but those whom shee Vouchsafeth to her presence to receave, And letteth them her lovely face to see, 255 Wherof such wondrous pleasures they conceave, And sweete contentment, that it doth bereave Their soul of sense, through infinite delight, And them transport from flesh into the spright.

take from, take away from; disseize^; deduct &c 38; retrench &c (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.

There is no other cure but time to wear it out, Injuriarum remedium est oblivio, as if they had drunk a draught of Lethe in Trophonius' den: to conclude, age will bereave her of it, dies dolorem minuit, time and patience must end it.

Soft and faire, there is more will forbid the baines, then say amen to the marriage: though the King usurped the Kingdome during the non-age of the Prince Phylaster, hee must not thinke to bereave him of it quite; hee is now come to yeares to claime the Crowne. TRA.

Be not so cruell to bereave her life 'Twill draw upon thee a perpetuall scar, Thy fathers curse, and a continuall warre.

My gracious Lord, I hope your Excellence Will not be so forgetfull of your honour, Prove so unnaturall to your loving daughter As to bereave her of her life Because she hath wedded basely gainst your will.

Bereave you of your Crownes prerogative.

Thy Suppliant I beg, and clasp thy Knees; bereave me not (Whereon I live!)

Who authorized the professor to bereave the word 'not' of its negative influence?

Who authorized the professor to bereave the word "not" of its negative influence?

Who authorized the professor to bereave the word 'not' of its negative influence?

For the space perhaps of half an hour the agony I felt from this termination to my tranquillity, and the expectation it excited of the enmity which would follow me through every retreat, was such as to bereave me of all consistent thinking, much more of the power of coming to any resolution.

By gifts such as these they sought to gain my favour, but how might lady bereave three of life, so as to cherish one.

The emperor replied, that he would presently show them how much they had been deceived in him, for that no earthly pleasure should so far bereave him of his senses, or blind his understanding, as to make him forget his duty in the high calling wherein he was placed.

Neither his father nor myself would be willing to have God now bereave us of the rich experience of seven years ago, when our noble little boy was taken away.

Though ye take from a covetous man his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; ye cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee.

Before verbs, they sometimes arbitrarily employ or omit prefixes: as, bide, or abide; dim, or bedim; gird, or begird; lure, or allure; move, or emove; reave, or bereave; vails, or avails; vanish, or evanish; wail, or bewail; weep, or beweep; wilder, or bewilder: 1.

And I their toys to the great children leave; Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.

325 examples of  bereave  in sentences