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

And he the trunſcyoune in his hand hath tak That two or thre he haith the ſadillis reft, 2964 Whill in his hond ſchortly no thing is left.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

B. Minor gave her a suspicious look, as if she feared she might be reft of her treasure.

From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]