1 "I've got a few new things," he said, suffused with pleasure, but lowering his voice as though he feared his fellow-passengers might be in league to despoil him.
2 It is not the property of which men can deprive us that matters, but the property of which no one on earth can deprive or despoil us.
3 He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 4 He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and despoiled the sacristy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 5 Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE 6 Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of poplars despoiled by the winter, bent with each breath of the wind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 7 I say the two, because Cardinal Rospigliosi, who had not taken any precaution, was completely despoiled.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 8 Within a week all the blooming roads had been despoiled, hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
9 Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.
The Prince By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ... 10 White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.