When Rome had divested herself of the superfluous accessories of her bequest, a noble residue still remained.
The practice of our own State proves that the office is not inviolable in the sense of being inalienable, for its holders have often forsworn it and asked to be divested of it.
It was in the far North, among the Hyperboreans, that, divested of his Lion's skin he lay down to sleep, and for a time lost the horses of his chariot.
When these move in the same direction, and that which God's will renders unavoidable shall become our choice, all things will be ours; life will be divested of its vanity, and death disarmed of its terrors.
Thou hast sanctified the grave by Thine own presence, and divested it of all its terrors.
But there is a word, which, though apparently divested of all ill meaning, has for some people a far deeper sting than either.
He had put his hat down when first he entered and had divested himself of his big coat: now he held one foot and then the other to the blaze and tried to infuse new life into his numbed hands.
Paul Friche, and he spat vigorously on the ground in token that henceforth he divested himself from any responsibility in this matter, "don't listen to me.
Such and such-like were the fragmentary comments upon one who, divested of so many claims upon the respect and gratitude of his country, had merely been pronounced a very well-bred and somewhat agreeable gentleman.
If that be the case, there need be no reserve between us," replied Amy, and raising from her reclining posture she seized me by the waist and throwing me on the bed she divested me of my chemise almost before I knew what she was about.
Agreed," I returned, commencing to unfasten my frock, and in a few moments we had divested ourselves of every particle of clothing.
The judges, divested of their flowing wigs and flaming robes, looked just like other men.
The servant left the room, and Mrs. Dare came forward, divested of her cloaks.
Here the first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell, now divested of his armour; at the sight of whom the Lady Emma changed colour, and exclaiming, "It is the same!
The walls had beendivested of their tapestries, and the floor gleamed with pounded glass.
And Napoleon went upon his knees and divested himself of his own nether garments, and arrayed the king therein, to the great diversion of those who stood about.
He called to mind and expounded ancient oracles heretofore unintelligible: he had himself been told, and had disbelieved, that the happiest day of his own life would be that on which he should feel himself divested of immortality.
Of that I shall judge," said the King, "when thou hast divested thyself of that veil and mask.
At length Russell had finished his task, and had divested himself of everything, his remorseless captor insisting on his leaving nothing; and so he stood shivering and crouching on the stone floor.
You did say that "divested of corporate investiture man were God.
You say that divested of the body man will be God?
Moreover, action was taken against them and they were divested of all authority by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from which their authority came.
If a spectator were placed as near to any of the fixed stars as we are to our sun, he would see our sun as small as we see a common star, divested of its circumvolving planets; and in numbering the stars he would reckon it one of them.
The following circumstance, noticed by Bishop Watson, will show the solidity that water is capable of acquiring whendivested of a large portion of caloric.
While the principals divested themselves of their cloaks and doublets, the seconds compared their swords.
They had gradually divested themselves of their clothing, and were bathed in perspiration.
The enterprises to which she lent her name were organized so admirably that by the time the takings were handed over, they were indeed skim milk divested of all cream of human kindness.
Mr Mill has divested it of that assumed demonstrative authority which Bacon called 'regere res per syllogismum;' but he has at the same time given to it a firm root amidst the generalities of objective science.
But when perceived as invested in a given mass of snow or granite before us, they are divested of that indeterminateness, and become restricted to a determinate measure and degree.
The tall young man, divested of hat and coat, is standing by her table, holding out his hand with a sort of bashful hardiness.
Divested of the romantic glamour which my friend is casting over the case, is this anything but an ordinary forgery?
It appears therefore at first sight probable that man has retained his beard from a very early period, whilst woman lost her beard at the same time when her body became almost completely divested of hair.
So again with many birds the head and neck have been divested of feathers through sexual selection, for the sake of exhibiting the brightly-coloured skin.
No one supposes that the nakedness of the skin is any direct advantage to man, so that his body cannot have been divested of hair through natural selection.
The island, eighteen years before, had been divested of its inhabitants, amounting at the time to rather more than four hundred souls, to make way for one sheep-farmer and eight thousand sheep.
A new sect sprang up called Theophilanthropists, who gleaned, as the basis of their system, some of the moral precepts of the gospel, divested of the sublime sanctions of Christianity.
The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity.
Neither, amid all its dreary features, is the natural season without its own picturesque beauty, nor even entirely divested of all its summer indications of a living loveliness, or all suggestions of an eternal hope.
Slowly, very slowly, hedivested himself of his clothes, and, piece by piece, indued himself in the old finery.
As methodically as he had indued them he divested himself of his regimentals, and so, having slipped into his old clothes again and strapped on his leg, stumped resolutely forth into the street.
The World, and Human Life in particular, are to be gayly and richly dressed; and when they are divested of their trappings, to appear very poor and wretched, and at length dead carcases.
The question, therefore, is whether the place that Peter assumes in the Bible, divested of the dignity which he enjoys in the Catholic or Protestant Churches as a martyr, or the first Pope, etc.
As I sat thus unnoticed (for the tone of the Count's manner had divested the few who were previously attentive of all interest for me), I overheard the conversation of those around me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
