78 examples of stript in sentences

Thus fade wethus our hopes and joys, rose-bright, Yield up their sweetness ere they reach their prime, And their poor fabrics lie within our sight, Stript of their radiance e'en in summer-time Their spirit hath gone from them, and they wither,

It irks me to think, that, stript of thy regalities, thou shouldst ferry over, a poor forked shade, in crazy Stygian wherry.

In like manner his goodly shelves are one by one stript of his favourite old authors, to give place to a collection of presentation copiesthe flower and bran of modern poetry.

From the moment he came into possession, he has undermined every act of my father that was within his reach, but, having none of that great man's sense or virtues, he could only lay wild hands on lands and houses; and since he has stript Houghton of its glory, I do not care a straw what he does with the stone or the acres.'

No, Sir, mine owne hande stript her into rags.

A rogue by statute, censured to be whipt, Cropt, branded, flit, neck-flockt: go, you are stript.

But notwithstanding his application to study, and all the efforts he was capable of making, such was his propensity to gaining, that he was often stript of all his money; and his father severely chiding him, and threatening to abandon him if he did not reform, he wrote a little essay against that vice, and presented it to his father, to convince him of his resolution against it.

And now came fast upon us that black day, the twenty-fourth of August, 1662, when such numbers of faithful ministers were stript of their offices and livings because they would not go against their consciences; and our own Mr. Truelocke among them.

However rich the room, it was in great disorder; and when we went up-stairs we found matters no betterbeds half stript, chests and cabinets left open, floors strewed with things pulled forth in haste and left there.

He was stript to the waist; and I thought at first that the hair of his head was all in a flame of fire, but it was a chafing-dish of burning brimstone that he had set upon his head, and which glared through the darkness.

I trusted overmuch to my own heart; and not till I was stript of all, a beggar and a slave, did I learn mine own vileness and weakness, and Christ's all-sufficiency.

When stript of this mortality derives No colour from the fleeting things about, But is absorbed in sufferance or in joy, Born from the knowledge of its own desert.

Frenchmen stript him where he fell, Gashed and marred his comely face; Who can know him in his place?

Now, no more Wotton! stript and naked, and ashamed almost to own its name.

When they got beyond the reach of the firing, the Indians stript the old lady of everything except her chemise, and in that plight carried her into the British camp.

But, if he would be worth a Poet's pen, 20 He must be more a fool, and write again: For all the former fustian stuff he wrote Was dead-born doggerel, or is quite forgot: His man of Uz, stript of his Hebrew robe, Is just the proverb, and as poor as Job.

Of this the critic says: "When the expression is stript of the absurd meaning, there remains nothing but balderdash.

That bramble has not grown an inch ever since, not a leaf altered; we used to pick blackberries off it, with our rods stuck in the bankit was later in the year than nowtill we stript it quite bare after a day or two.

He did not want his wife stript of her jointure, or his children, if he had any, left without bread.

Tho stript and stark, they feel the Lord Himself to be the portion of their inheritance and of their cup.

I would not have had you offer up the poorest rag that lingered upon the stript shoulders of little Alice Fell, to have atoned all their malice; I would not have given 'em a red cloak to save their souls.

Wither's were written, as we learn from the title-page of the 1615 volume, while the author was in prison in the Marshalsea for hunting vice with a pack of satires in full cry, that is, the Abuses Stript and Whipt of 1611.

They go into the wood, pick two dry branches, and having stript themselves of their clothes they rub the two branches together very hard till they catch fire; then with the fire so obtained they kindle two bonfires, one on each side of a cross-road which is known to be frequented by wolves.

Should the thorns, however, be stripped off, the signification is, "There is everything to hope;" but if stript of its leaves, "There is everything to fear."

While on his way to England, Bartholomew Columbus had the misfortune to be taken by pirates, who stript him and all the rest of the ships company of every thing they had of value.

78 examples of  stript  in sentences