Use deprive in a sentence
Sentences ending with deprive
- He had nothing, now, to give, no power longer to deprive. [9]
More example sentences with the word deprive in them
- For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship. [2]
- Moreover, my conviction would probably deprive him for six whole afternoons of my company, on which he was more or less dependent. [9]
- For the poor whom they daily threaten to deprive of their bread-winner? [10]
- He knew very well that this was Napoleon, but Napoleon's presence could no more intimidate him than Rostov's, or a sergeant major's with the rods, would have done, for he had nothing that either the sergeant major or Napoleon could deprive him of. [2]
- He would not vote to deprive Mr. Hodder of his salary. [9]
- The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you. [2]
- Another important objection to this application of the right of self-government is that it enables the first few to deprive the succeeding many of a free exercise of the right of self-government. [7]
- It was painful to him to deprive any one of his lands and home. [10]
- Everything is done to deprive him of the remains of his reason and to prepare him for his terrible part. [2]
- Yet they wished to deprive her of this exquisite treasure, this peerless comfort for the soul! [10]
- They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against; as calculated to deprive him of a lodger. [9]
- I was in the plot to carry you off and deprive you of your fortune. [9]
- As soon as the pathway widens, we'll run you down with scant ceremony, and may the gods deprive me of a day of life for each one I spare! [10]
- It would be the greatest happiness of my life if I could restore his property to you, where he would have had it go, and deprive that villain, your uncle, of the fruits of his crime. [9]
- What possessed him, that he should feel such love of his fellow-men as to deprive himself of all comfort in life and of his night's rest for their sake? [10]
- My own conscience tells me that it is wrong to deprive Bob of his inheritance, and to separate him from his father, whatever his father--may be. [9]
- That has a somewhat reckless sound; but it would be palliated, if not fully justified, were we proposing, by the mere force of numbers, to deprive you of some right plainly written down in the Constitution. [7]
- If she fled, she would deprive the emperor of the only being on whose love he felt he had some claim. [10]
- He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. [2]
- I know the peasant; he believes that his labors must be vain if you deprive him of the gods that make it thrive. [10]
- She is doing one-half of your day's task and I am doing the other, so that your suffering foot may not deprive you of your day's pay. [10]
- For the sake of keeping tracks off that avenue he would deprive people of attractive homes at a small cost, of the good air they can get beyond the heights; he would stunt the city's development. [9]
- And they are not content in trying to deprive us of our rights. [9]
- And we have no right to deprive our brethren of their property of their very means of livelihood. [9]
- Though he is my father, he shall not deprive me of my soul, and he shall not take my life away from me. [9]
- She humoured, smilingly, my crystal-gazing into our future, as though she had not the heart to deprive me of the pleasure. [9]
- How deeply rooted must have been the faithlessness of this clever hypocrite, if the mere news that his brother loved some one else could not only destroy all her powers of dissimulation, but actually deprive her of consciousness! [10]
- If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution--certainly would if such a right were a vital one. [7]
- Do not contradict me I entreat you, unless you want to deprive me of the happiness of remedying an injustice to your pretty Dada. [10]
- Dread, horror and loathing threatened to deprive her of consciousness; but the ardent longing, the one last hope of her soul sustained her, steeled her energy, sharpened her sight. [10]
- The British were irritated by a conflagration which had that morning laid almost a third of the city in ashes, and which they attributed to incendiary efforts to deprive them of agreeable winter quarters. [4]
- The busy spider in the Escurial could not deprive him of the laurel, but his own "word," his highest ambition in life, his power, he would consent to share with no mortal man, not even his brother. [10]
- Mukaukas George, notwithstanding his well-founded aversion for everything Melchite, had taken good care not to press this useful Sisterhood too hardly, or to deprive his impoverished capital of its revenues only to throw them into the hands of the wealthy Moslems. [10]
- But to shelter her, to warn her, to allow his soul to be refreshed by the sight of her and by her talk--this he felt was permissible, this happiness no one could deprive him of. [10]
- And what she heard was indeed well fitted to deprive her of her senses, but the more definite the facts to which the words referred that she could overhear, the more keenly she listened, and the more resolutely she collected her thoughts. [10]
- How could you have the heart to deprive me of the hope on which my poor heart still feeds?--But I will not be robbed of it. [10]
- She would not have hesitated to require her niece's return home had not maternal solicitude urged her to deprive her of nothing which could aid her troubled soul to regain its poise. [10]
- He has erred greatly, yet I think we need not judge him till after the holy day, and, in consideration of his former innocence, need not deprive him of the honorable office. [10]
- To banish it from life is to deprive the plant of blossoms, the rose of its fragrance, the sky of its stars. [10]
- Myrtilus, however, earnestly entreated him not to deprive himself on his account of a pleasure which he would gladly have shared. [10]
- Why should I deprive honest fellows who had less? [10]
- I would not deprive him of its convenience. [9]
- He could not conceive that a stupid chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined misery. [2]
- Were I to burst these fetters, I know positively that at my death my body would remain unburied; for, know that the priests sit in judgment over every corpse, and deprive the condemned of rest, even in the grave. [10]
- Nor could they, apparently, deprive him of the vision of her in the fields and woods beside him, though transformed by their magic into a new Victoria, keeping him lightly and easily at a distance. [9]
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