bereft
Definition: lacking, deprived, devoid of
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Bleak House - By Charles Dickens, Frederick Barnard
...When we rejoined him in the drawing-room he said he would give us a little ballad, which had come into his head, `` apropos of our young f. riend; " and he sang one about a I ` easant boy, " Thrown on the wide world, doom 'd to wander and roam, Bereft of his parents, bereft of a home . "...
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...`` If Ciesar die to-morrow, " he said, `` Rome will not be all bereft ....
Moriah's Mourning - By Ruth McEnery Stuart
...Here, amid broken marbles--lyreless Apollos, Pegasns bereft of wings, and prostrate Muses--the hardier roses, golden-rod, and honeysuckle run riot within the old levee, between the comings of the waters that at intervals steal in and threaten to swallow all at a gulp ....
A Christmas Carol - By Charles Dickens, Albert Franklin Blaisdell
...A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man . "...
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...His lonely daughter, bereft of her final hope ana reliance, appealed to them both too strongly ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...The sacred steel But lately struck my carnal will, My life-long hope, first joy and last, What I loved well, and clung to fast; What I wished wildly to retain; What I renounced with soul-felt pain; What, when I saw it, axe-struck, perish, Left me no joy on earth to cherish--A man bereft; yet sternly now I do confirm that Jephtha vow ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...This appalling sight almost bereft me of my senses, and finding that I could no longer be of service to any one in the house, my only desire was to fly from such an accumulation of horrors as quickly as I could; almost distracted, I rushed towards the staircase, clasping my burning temples with both hands, and uttering cries of horror ....
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...It seemed as though the limitless heaven that had then bent over his head had been transmuted to a dark and ponderous vault, narrowly circumscribed, and henceforth bereft, to him, of mystery and eternity ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...I am so unhappy, and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste, that if I had been bereft of sense to this hour, and instead of being as learned as you think me, had to begin to acquire the simplest truths, I could not want a guide to peace, contentment, honor, all the good of which I am quite devoid, more abjectly than I do ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...s the Head of him ' whose Name only ment of In former times did Pilgrims terrify, deliverance His Castle 's down, and Diffidence his Wife Brave Master Great-heart has bereft of Life ....
The Mayor of Casterbridge - By Thomas Hardy
...If he were doomed to be bereft of her, so it must be ....
Kidnapped - By Robert Louis Stevenson
...With the clear perception of my plight, there fell upon me a blackness of despair, a horror of remorse at my own folly, and a passion of anger at my uncle, that once more bereft me of my senses ....
Don Quixote - By Ronald D. K. Storer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...I am that unhappy being, senora, ' replied Cardenio, ' whom, as you have said, Luscinda declared to be her husband; I am the unfortunate Cardenio, whom the wrong-doing of him who has brought you to your present condition has reduced to the state you see me in, bare, ragged, bereft of all human comfort, and what is worse, of reason, for I only possess it when Heaven is pleased for some short space to restore it to me ....
Wives and Daughters - By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
...But when this second letter was sent off, Molly 's heart began to bleed for the poor creature, bereft of her husband, in a foreign land, and he at a distance from her, dead and buried without her ever having had the chance of printing his dear features on her memory by one last long lingering look ....
The Magnificent Ambersons - By Booth Tarkington, Arthur William Brown, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press
...Meanwhile, the life of the little bereft group still forlornly centring upon him began to pick up again, as life will, and to emerge from its own period of dazedness ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...And as the tigress bereft of her young will turn with equal anger on any within reach, so did Mrs. Proudie turn upon her female guest . "...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - By Laurence Sterne, Charles Whibley, Tristram Shandy, George Saintsbury
...-- My child was bereft of thefe !...