Let the Directory attempt to depriveme of my command and they will see who is the master.
However, his hands were tied for the moment, for he was just undertaking to deprive the Huguenots of their strong towns.
Sidenote: The national states begin to deprivethe Church of its governmental powers.
But in effect he said; "Let us combine to deprive the aristocracy of those privileges which are injurious to the Crown, whilst we retain those which are offensive only to the people.
The English colonies had meditated the annexation of the French, and they resented that the king's government undertook the expedition, to deprive them of the opportunity for united action.
It rests upon facts, and upon the purpose, as indicated by those facts, to deprive our ancestors of the rights of Englishmen, and to subject them to the power of a Government in which they were not represented.
I will not yield to these false pretences of humanity and melioration which will only deprive us of privateers, and leave our commerce exposed to your immense navies.
Even you I have been compelled sometimes to deprive of enjoyments to which your birth entitled you.
No compact or consent or legislation on the part of one portion of the community, can ever justly deprive another portion of the community of their right of their share of the earth, and of its natural productions.
If true Commonwealth's Freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the Earth, as it doth, then whatsoever Law or Custom doth deprive Bretheren of their Freedom in the Earth is to be cast out as unsavoury salt.
In 1221 and the following years, the pope issued mandates to the English bishops bidding them deprive married clerks ("Papal Letters," vol.
The pope tells him to deprive them of all their benefices.
A voice from the crowd called out, "No children," as if on purpose todeprive the mother of that appeal to humanity which might move the hardest heart.
Nothing could deprive you of my love; you have erred, but you were deceived by a combination of circumstances that would have misled any one.
It is not my intention, Mr. Rockland, to deprive you of her services, so long as it may be agreeable to her to aid you.
It would be unjust to her distinguished relative to deprive him of the company of his fair cousin.
I might have enjoyed the concert under more favorable circumstances, but the state of my nervous system was such as to deprive me of the pleasure.
If she failed they would beat her, entreat her spitefully, and deprive her of food.
If she refused, or failed to do it, her sisters-in-law would beat her, and deprive her of food.
That the latter policy was still strong was indicated in the overwhelming defeat of motions todeprive the General Executive Board of its power over the strike activities of the organization.
Though they did deprive the organization of its most reputable, best financed, and most respectable elements, their loss tended to give sharp definition and emphatic impulse toward a more revolutionary policy.
Tell yourself every hour of the day that the God of love will not desert you or deprive you of strength and courage for your ordeal.
Even clergymen who are preaching morality and brotherly love are compelled to keep their mouths shut on certain evils and abuses, lest they offend the pillars of the church and deprive the treasury of its income.
It was necessary to deprive him of his royal power, when that power would have been employed in depriving the people of their civil and religious liberties.
But from the day that I learned that he was going to depriveme of my most precious treasure, I began to study him.
I have evinced enough esteem and confidence in you todeprive you of the right to arm yourself against me with the sad secret which you have surprised.
Besides, had I the right to deprivepoor Sauvresy, who was dying in order to avenge himself, of his vengeance?
Don't you see that he can deprive me of his millions, and reduce me to my dowry of fifty thousand francs?
Can't you suppose that the count, perfidious enough to set a trap for his servant, was shrewd enough to deprive him of every means of proving an alibi?
I don't want to invent something that is going to deprive thousands of people of a living.
As to legislation that affects personal liberty, these bills you say you have come to see me about deprive no man of any liberty he has a right to possess.
But I am ready to confess they dodeprive some persons of the liberty to steal the people's land and water power.
I am sorry in this case to have to deprive you of the pleasure of giving rein to it to other people.
He threatened to deprive me of every penny if I didn't keep her.
Child as he was, he knew quite well what had happened to deprive Gerald of his inheritance.
Perish honours and title too, if they could deprive me of the gentle girl I love!
He struggled with his own anxiety that the intervening obstacles to his journey should not deprive him of serenity and trust, but the inward fever was ravaging within.
His last words to them came again and again on the heart of each parent as soothing balm, of which nor time nor circumstance could deprive them.
Marie Theresa when the French tried to deprive her of her inheritance.
Another Article in his sermon was judged more hard; for he alleged from the Common Law that the Civil Magistrate might correct the Churchmen, and for open vices deprive them of their benefices.
Upon these grounds he argued that there was no reason why they, the born counsellors, nobility, and barons of the realm, might not justly deprive her from all regiment and authority amongst them.
His mixture of surprise, joy, and anxiety did not deprive him of the presence of mind which the occasion demanded.
I add, moreover, that it is very easy for certain people to fancy themselves sucked by vampires, and that the fear caused by that fancy should make a revolution in their frame sufficiently violent to deprive them of life.
Whence it happens, that the people of those countries impale them, cut off their heads, burn them, to deprive their spirit of all hope of animating them again, and of making use of them to molest the living.
This ought not to appear strange in those who die without malady and a sudden death; or of certain maladies, known to our physicians, which do not deprive the blood of its fluidity, or the limbs of their suppleness.
These same Laplanders make use also of this drum to learn the cause of any malady, or to deprive their enemies of their life or their strength.
It seemed ungrateful of her to deprivehim of the happiness by getting well too rapidly.
One word about the delicacies which you cannot readily procure in a hotel, and which it would deprive me of a great happiness if I could not send.
This did not, however, deprive Christ of His power of outpouring the glory of His soul into His body.
Thirdly, in order todeprive the Jews of ground for quibbling.
But if he do this through error or a slip of the tongue, and if he so far mispronounce the words as to deprive them of sense, the sacrament seems to be defective.
Thirdly, to deprive the Jews of an excuse for slandering Him.
Yet meanwhile in our pilgrimage He does not deprive us of His bodily presence; but unites us with Himself in this sacrament through the truth of His body and blood.
As well might Europe attempt to attach the little island of Nantucket to some of her own dynasties as to deprive the United States of the control of the trade of Cuba so long as her steam lines are continued to that island.
After being sacrificed, it was nevertheless eaten, which seems somewhat to deprivethe performance of its merit, as the share of the Deity was the bones.
The Princess Palatine snatched the chick from the dog, on which a voice cried out: "Give him back his chicken; if you deprive him of his food he will not watch as he ought.
What man was ever foolish and stupid enough thus todeprive himself at great cost and excessive labor of the greatest advantage that could present itself to his hands and eyes?
If I, an Alsatian, am dependent on a priest who lives at Rome and has the barbarous power to deprive me of a wife, he may as well make me a eunuch to sing Miserere in his chapel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deprive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
