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expulse

[ik-spuhls] / ɪkˈspʌls /












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Asad ibn Rabiya rose and said: 'Why cannot we expulse him from among us and banish him from our country?

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet

Thus must we worke that will auoide distrust, Thus must we practice to preuent mishap, And thus one ill another must expulse.

From The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd

In this year the O'Briens, long the lords of the islands of Aran, "were expulsed from their territory by ye ferocious O'Flaherties of Iar Connaught."

From The South Isles of Aran by Oliver J. Burke

Malgo succeeded Vortiponus which was the goodliest man in person of all Britaine, a prince that expulsed many tyrants.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt

But when men have at hand a remedy, more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed.

From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More

Advise ye well, Supreme Senate, if charity be thus excluded and expulsed, how ye will defend the untainted honour of your own actions and proceedings.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

Many avaricious men had already on various pretexts "expulsed" the priests or incumbents and taken the emoluments for themselves.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell




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