reft

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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

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

A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks.

From Time Magazine Archive

How much pure delight has not been reft from us!

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.

I hear Michael return, triumphant, to display, 350 Here in the light, the spoil from Angels reft.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den