reft
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A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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 .
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They must know it is treason; for if they had succeeded, the life of the nation would have been reft from it, the Union would have been destroyed.
From The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction by Chadsey, Charles Ernest
Sans raiment are the wardrobes, reft of mantle and of vair, The empty hollow of the hall of tapestry is bare.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.