despoiled

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Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despoiled of his means, and smarting with defeat, Horace was just in the state of mind to strike vigorously at men and manners which he did not like.

From Horace by Martin, Theodore

Despoiled of fortune; turned from the home where I have lived from my childhood; bereft of all!

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Despoiled of their rich garments and shunned by all, they knew not which way to turn.

From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Bender, Millicent Schwab

Despoiled of their armor and silken robes, they fasted, they prayed, they studied the Koran and the tradition of the Sonnites: they performed, with zeal and knowledge, the functions of their ecclesiastical character.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart