deprives
Example Sentences
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The memory of her loveliness Pervades my waking dreams, and, pleasant theft, Deprives my sleep of dark oblivion.
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar
Yet ’Tis wonderful how men forget, And how a merciful Providence Deprives our husbands of all sense Of kindness past, and makes them deem We always were what now we seem.
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
What folly this, that thus Deprives thee of thy wit?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den