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

Then, as the last of his footsteps died away, Lilian fell prone to the ground, and, with her face buried in her hands, sobbed as if her heart was reft in twain.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

What right had he to look upon life as a broken thing simply because one side of its joys had been reft from him?

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram