But how can Europe grant their warm appeal, Reft of her sons, and mangled by his steel?
Women screamed, children were reft away from their mothers, panting men trampled over bags and bundles torn from their owners' hands, and George and the elderly Canadian struggled determinedly to prevent the girl's being badly crushed.
It had grown nearly dark; a curious leaden haze obscured the prairie; and when the man was getting into his light, spring-seated wagon, a jagged streak of lightning suddenly reft the gloom and there was a deafening roll of thunder.
The weather grows worse every minute, and no sign of any clearing shows in the indigo sky or the wind-reft mist.
Reft of the Neri first Pistoia pines, Then Florence changeth citizens and laws.
Moreover, "at that same time they reft and took away from the said complainers their horses, saddles, and other gear worth five hundred merks.
A man may sleep if the wind will let him; but such fearsome visions I have had of late, that I ha' been just nigh 'reft o' my wits.
For the first time in years, he climbed into the saddle using the stirrup like a man reft of youth.
It was the man; but the woman had been reft from his close embrace at the moment when some chance of safety seemed to have come most surely within reach.
Last, I enjoin each here to lend his aid For my sake, and the God's, and for your land Reft of her increase and renounced by Heaven.
With cursèd wounding of their sight-reft eyes, That cried to Heaven to 'venge the iniquity.
No word of thine can touch my soul Or win me to thy love, who by deceit Hast reft my life away.
By Heaven, since thou hast reft away my fear, So nobly meeting my unworthiness, I pray thee, hear me for thine own behoof.
But that fair hope The hapless Genius of thy lot and mine Hath reft away, and gives thee thus to me,-- For thy loved form thy dust and fruitless shade O bitterness!
Nay, from hence thou would'st drag Myself with violence, and hast reft away My children.
What crime has ever my brain meditated, that I must be reft of my life at so early an age?
When the heart is tranquil and sadness does not disturb the mind, a man sees joy in all things; even the sombre forest is reft of its terrors, and becomes beautiful, the ground is found to be clothed with sweet grass and pretty flowers.
And yet upon the heaven his eyes he bent, Hearing the marvel; yet he sought for her That was a wanting, in the hope her face Once more might fill its reft abiding-place.
Three times the wood of battle before their edges broke; And the shield-wall, sorely dwindled and reft of the ruddy gold, Against the drift of the war-blast for the fourth time yet did hold.
And I greatly misdoubt, he thatreft her of the ane reft her of the ither!
Two of the lifeboats had been forcibly reft away from the side of the ship by the violence of the shock and carried off by the sea.
The Deities said, 'Though deprived of tongues through the curse of Agni and, therefore, reft of the sensation of taste, ye shall yet be able to utter diverse kinds of speech.
Living within holes, deprived of food, reft of consciousness, wasted and dried up, and more dead than alive, all of you will be held by the Earth nevertheless.
Mischief might to that mischance befall, That so hath reft us of our merriment; But rede me what pain doth thee so appal; Or lovest thou, or be thy younglings miswent?
Since Time hath reft whate'er my soul enjoyed, And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloyed.
His feet were chill, And reft of sense; and we who watched him knew The fever had not wholly left his brain, For he was wandering, seeking nests of birds, An urchin from the green Ionian town Where he was born.
Though 'reft of breath, Thou ne'er shalt feel the stroke of death; The heroes' happy isles shall be The bright abode allotted thee.
On the boat she makes glad in its gliding She is gone from me, reft from me, ravished!
He would have reft it from the said George; but he resisted, alleging that the Frenchman did wrong.
From this I was reft by the tyranny of France, by procurement of the bishops, as ye all know well enough.
And, over and above all this, the thought that Lalusini might be reft from me filled my mind with a fierce and savage dread.
The young men snarled, like hungry dogs reft of a bone.
Go: win back that southern realm a rebel has reft from me.
Gone was their glory, their weapons were reft from them and they reduced to their former state; their arms were bound behind their backs and they stretched forth their necks to the sword’s imminent stroke, begging for pardon and for life.
Manlius, in whom are gathered all the virtues unalloyed, in whom I see traces of ancient justice and manners moulded of a purer metal, thou hast devoted time enough now to study; all these years have the Muses reft from me my pupil.
Were the fasces reftfrom Tarquin to be given to Eutropius?
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