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Sentences ending with bereft

Of the ability to feel she was utterly bereft. [9]
Euryale had known the old pastophoros a long time, and, noticing his mourning garb, she asked sympathetically: "And you, too, are bereft? [10]

More example sentences with the word bereft in them

I should know you for a philosopher, without such persistent silence; and as for myself, I am not altogether bereft of curiosity, in spite of my eighty years. [10]
Had the architect's wine bereft him of his senses? [10]
And she of whom seven years ago death had bereft him? [10]
He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
Mr. Flint looked up from his desk, and his face, previously bereft of illumination, lighted when he saw his daughter. [9]
A host of torturing thoughts haunted her unbidden; they were not to be exorcised, and added to her misery: Neforis dead; the residence in the hands of the Arabs; Orion bereft of his possessions and held guilty of a capital crime. [10]
Was it a tortured conscience that drove him hither and thither, or was he as innocent as she was, and was it longing, love, and anxiety that bereft him of sleep? [10]
He scoffed at them as adventures, mountebanks, sideshow riffraff, dime museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey. [5]
The heart of the proud, lonely man only sought a place where it might be permitted to soften; the soldier, bereft of love, needed some nook where he could exercise on others what was denied to himself: "devoted affection. [10]
Perhaps Myrtilus had succumbed to the terrible attack which must have visited him in such a storm, and life without his friend would be bereft of half its charm. [10]
For he who shall be overthrown is no longer a mighty god but an idol bereft of his splendor and his dignity. [10]
The simple people respected her grief, and always made a tender-hearted stillness when the bereft little maiden went through the streets,--a stillness which she never noticed, for she never noticed anything apparently. [4]
He seemed like one bereft of understanding. [11]
My father died on the 14th of February, 1837, and on the 1st of March of the same year I was born, a fortnight after the death of the man in whom my mother was bereft of both husband and lover. [10]
During the afternoon of that day I was talking with one of the young gentlemen just referred to, and he said he had an uncle who, from some cause or other, seemed to have grown permanently bereft of all emotion. [5]
Still, almost bereft of employments, he found ways to make money, even ways to get rich. [5]
His anger had not cooled, his eyes still flamed, but he suddenly found himself bereft of speech. [9]
But he could not conceive of their life, their toil or their festivals, bereft of images, offerings, garlands, and hymns of rejoicing. [10]
I came to my wits with an immoderate feeling of faintness and sickness, with no more remembrance of things past than has a man bereft of reason. [9]
Thus he remained, motionless and bereft of speech, until she had finished her meal, put everything in its place, and swept the hearth; when he motioned her to bring a chair to the bedside, and, being propped up again, opened a farther conversation. [12]
He is with me, uninjured, but apparently exhausted; like a different being, bereft of courage, listless as if utterly crushed. [10]
Still they stood irresolute, their minds now bereft of expedients. [9]
All these door-ways, into what seemed to be at once the dining and sitting-room of the steward, were bereft of doors, and could only be closed by stuff curtains, just now drawn wide open. [10]
He, too, saw in the convent the fitting place for her future life, now bereft of its best possessions; but although she succeeded in retaining her composure during his entreaties and warnings, she still most positively refused to obey the Emperor's order. [10]
I could read in both their faces that they were bereft of another hope, yet would my aunt go below and herself speak with Young Kubbeling. [10]
As for me, I was bereft of speech, not knowing what to say or how far to go. [9]
Come what will I am not bereft Of the memory of that time, When in her hands my heart I left There, in a colder clime. [11]
Once Honora perceived him flying the length of the field, madly pursued, his mallet poised lightly, his shirt bulging in the wind, his close-cropped head bereft of a cap, regardless of the havoc and confusion behind him. [9]
Fate had bereft her of a mother's love, that sun of life's spring. [10]
Her great love had bereft her of her senses, for had the least grain of sanity remained to her she might have known that the thing they attempted was impossible of accomplishment. [9]
But if his fears were verified, if he was bereft of friends and property, even as a lonely beggar he might continue to enjoy his freedom. [10]
Her tones were even, bereft of every vestige of hope. [9]
There was something emblematical in the misfortune which had bereft the picture of its setting. [9]
He had stood before her as if bereft of his senses. [10]
And so, again am I bereft, again am I forlorn; no drop of my blood flows in the veins of any living being who is marketable. [5]
There was such a thing as momentary insanity, in which the person, otherwise rational to all appearances, was for the time actually bereft of reason, and not responsible for his acts. [5]

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