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expulse

[ik-spuhls] / ɪkˈspʌls /












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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

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

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

So did the Romaines by their armes restore many Kings of Asia and Affricke expulsed out of their kingdoms.

From The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham

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

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

They reached Villiers to find every house empty, and were almost instantly expulsed by shells.

From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard




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