1 A week after the wedding Charles left to join Colonel Wade Hampton, and two weeks later Ashley and the Troop departed, leaving the whole County bereft.
2 But these ignominies and dangers were as nothing compared with the peril of white women, many bereft by the war of male protection, who lived alone in the outlying districts and on lonely roads.
3 At this, in my flurry and confusion, some hostile god bereft me of my senses.
4 Scarcely had he spoken thus, when on the mountain top we see shepherding his flocks a vast moving mass, Polyphemus himself seeking the shores he knew, a horror ominous, shapeless, huge, bereft of sight.
5 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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 6 Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.
7 Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its hair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS