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

Not till the nineteenth century was their last stronghold, Malta, reft from them by Napoleon, to pass finally under the flag of England.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

Is't what the Princes' hollow theft, From Emperor and from Empire reft?

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William