reft

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Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them.

From Time Magazine Archive

A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The best lines in the Cantos are very good indeed: What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee .

From Time Magazine Archive

Wot tho' the sly contracters Defraud us rite and left, And Uncle Sam's old stockin' Of all his cash is reft?

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

It describes a lover as lost to his mistress, by being reft away into fairy-land, and as recovered by an effort of courage and presence of mind on her part.

From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)