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
Dreams and fancies were reft away as reality, in the person of Haskins of the saw-pits, stood before John Berwick.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
Then his face grew a trifle hard, and all sense of satisfaction was suddenly reft away from him.
From A Damaged Reputation by Harold Bindloss
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