despoiled

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Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despoiled of their armor and silken robes, they fasted, they prayed, they studied the Koran and the tradition of the Sonnites: they performed, with zeal and knowledge, the functions of their ecclesiastical character.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

Despoiled of his usurped power, he sinks to insignificance.

From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Despoiled of fortune; turned from the home where I have lived from my childhood; bereft of all!

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Despoiled of his kingly garments, breathless and splashed with mire, King Robert rushed on till he came to the palace gates.

From The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Hayman, Doris