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- I saw that with New Zealand gone, he was a Samson shorn of his locks; he was as other men. [5]
- It was sad to see his name disappear from the newspapers; sadder still to see it resurrected at intervals, shorn of its aforetime gaudy gear of compliments and clothed on with rhetorical tar and feathers. [5]
- May heaven temper the winds to them, for they have been shorn very close, every one of them, of their golden fleece of aspirations and anticipations. [6]
- The tombs of the Pharaohs extending into the very heart of the rocky hills, and the grand temples that stood to the west of the city of the dead, shorn though they were of their ancient glory, filled the Emperor with admiration. [10]
- The delight of the Nobility and Gentry shorn of a bonnet which a Lady Mayoress might have sighed to wear, and arrayed in a white sheet as a spectacle of mortification and humility! [12]
- She realized how terrible it would be for him to be shorn of the liberty he had always had; how dangerous it might be in many ways; and how the people of the island might become excited by it--and troublesome. [11]
- The timber is shorn off clear to the rear of the plantations, from two to four miles. [5]
- He might be shorn of limb and scarred of body, but with eye sight still direct the courses of great schemes, in whatever sphere of life his purposes were at work. [11]
- He did not share the prevalent opinion of Burr's treason, and regarded him as a man so fallen as to be shorn of the power to injure the country, one for whom he could feel nothing but compassion. [4]
- At the head rode a grey-headed old man; his robes were brown, and rent, in token of mourning, the mane and tail of his horse had been shorn off and the creature colored blue.--It was Hystaspes, coming to entreat mercy for his son. [10]
- This was part of a mass of hair, then, which had been shorn and thrown from the window. [6]
- He felt pretty naked now, recognizing that he was shorn of all respect except respect for his fists. [5]
- I pictured to myself the scene passing within: the poor novice despoiled of her transient finery, and clothed in the conventual garb; the bridal chaplet taken from her brow, and her beautiful head shorn of its long silken tresses. [4]
- In doing so he has curtailed it, and to my mind shorn it of some of its more vivid and picturesque features. [4]
- But Jethro Bass has been dead these twenty years, and his lieutenants shorn of power. [9]
- His occupation is gone, his power has passed away, he is absorbed into the common herd, he grinds at the mill, a shorn Samson and inconspicuous. [5]
- Likewise the long golden hair, which had flowed in rich abundance down over his shoulders, had been shorn away after the manner of the unbelievers, and this gave to his well-favored face a narrow and right strange appearance. [10]
- Never, I believe, did man, shorn of power, accept his lot more quietly. [9]
- To the individual, death coming so gently, so suddenly, is shorn of all its terrors. [4]
- The ground appeared bare and ill-treated, like a sheep first shorn; but yet nothing could take away from it the look of plenty, even as the fat sides of the shorn sheep invite the satisfied eye of the expert. [11]
- There are somewhat awkward limits to true understanding as yet, but that sympathetic service which you render to both peoples, with a conscientious striving for impartiality, tempers even the wind of party warfare to the shorn lamb of political opposition. [11]
- Without them he appeared shorn of strength, defenseless, a smaller man. [13]
- Both banks, for a good deal over a hundred miles, are shorn of their timber and bordered by continuous sugar plantations, with only here and there a scattering sapling or row of ornamental China-trees. [5]
- He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory. [5]
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