Spain aimed to profit by the impression produced by the passage of her troops close to the Swiss frontier to force certain military advantages and dispossess France from the exceptional situation she had lately secured in the Alps.
If you stood in your old position, even I could not persuade him to dispossess you; but you have voluntarily given it up.
Go to Scotland and dispossess the man who lords it over your lands, and spends your revenues.
Dispossess them gradually by purchase as the extension of settlement demands the occupation of their lands.
They concluded that the strangers had come to "spy out their country" with a view to dispossess them of their lands; and, with such impressions, they resolved to murder the count.
The real object of constituting this tribunal, sustained by military force, was obvious; it was to dispossess the Connecticut people of their farms.
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Tamerlane had neither time nor means nor inclination to dispossess the ancient rajahs of the country.
Such was the amiable disposition of the natives before they discovered the purpose of the whites to dispossess them of their territory.
In 1725 he stated that they had taken possession of one thousand acres of land, resolutely sat down and improved it without having any right to it, and he expressed himself much at a loss to determine how to dispossess them.
The proprietors, at length alarmed at the probable consequences of letting their squatters usurp the lands or hunting-grounds of the Indians, sent Peters and others to dispossess them.
He had therefore put off their urgent demands of fulfilment of this stipulation, on the plea that it required time and caution to dispossess the potent Scottish barons now holding them.
Reginald was no sooner on the throne, than he armed against his uncle, who was also preparing to dispossess him.
The duke indignantly refused to comply with the demand, and Henry prepared to dispossess his brother by force.
As the house of Moses was so small, it was not difficult to dispossess them by saturating it with kerosene, which was quickly done, and the little occupant allowed to return and go to bed.
When one ape procures a certain article of food, the others do not try to dispossess it.
An Abenakee Indian arrived this day, saying that he came direct from Montreal, and gave out that a large fleet of French was on its way to Canada, full of troops, to dispossess the English of the country.
To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
To dispossess them of the fort which they had constructed at Niagara, between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
Washington saw the rashness of an attempt to dispossess the French with a force so inferior that it could be harassed and driven from place to place at their pleasure.
The chamber was full of godly ministers, who would not let her send for a doctor, saying the case was in their way, and that they would dispossess him.
He had come with the force of the civil power to dispossess them, and make way for sheep and cattle.
When they took possession of their estates all promised fair and well, but by-and-bye the fatal blow was struck, to dispossess the people of their sheep.
We will not undertake, in the absence of surveys and local information as to the claims of the natives, to assign to you a million, or any other number of acres, and dispossess the natives by the sword.
Finally, the Franks come in and dispossess the Lombards.
Satan has held the dominion for some time, and the Lord now comes to dispossess him, to take possession of his rightful inheritance, and to rule his own kingdom.
To be brief, shall these old Wisinsteins come out here from Washington City and dispossess any man of his property?
If the honorable court which you have the pleasure to represent is willing to dispossessme of my property in favor of a ring of government thieves, and on only hearing one side of the question, then consider me in contempt.
They must mean him ill or they would not work in such a silent, stealthy fashion to dispossess him and drive him farther west into unfamiliar fastnesses.
They may also have argued that any one who could dispossess the ghosts and make Marnhoul once more a habitable mansion, was welcome to the tenancy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispossess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
