reft

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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 .

From Time Magazine Archive

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

While doing duty at the Residency he had thrown aside the turban reft from Abdul Huq and he now wore the peaked shako, with white puggaree, affected by junior staff officers at that period.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis

Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to join the spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe?

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert