The life of the courier was saved by one of them who had formerly been his postillion; he was, however, robbed and stripped.
If he could win her heart and hand, or even her hand without the heart, his fortune would be made, and the wealth and social position of which cruel fate had thus far robbed him would be obtained.
The little cottage was like a casket robbed of its single jewel to those who were left.
On the other hand, the infidel Zosimus, quoted by Gibbon, was not far wrong when he said "the monks robbed an empire to help a few beggars.
Even if so, they seemed to have escaped that confused and mystical philosophy which has robbed Oriental thought of much power in the realm of practical life.
They told her it was because of her that Roger McKay had come in that winter of starvation and death, and had robbed and almost killed, that she and Slim Buck and little Sun Cloud might live.
Then Beaudin, seeing his chance, robbed the mail himself, and the crime was laid to me.
He robbed us of a beautiful opportunity of dying in an unusual way by hunting us up and dragging us into his shelter.
He said you was square, even when you robbedother people.
They have not forgotten how all that winter you robbed the white people over on the Des Chenes, that we might live.
Very soon Hawkins was left behind, cursing at the futility of the pursuit, and at the fate that had robbed him of an eye.
But the memory of those miserably anxious early years, his young man's years robbed of all generous illusions by the cynicism of the sordid lawsuit, stood in the way of forgiveness.
The remoteness of the locality would have robbed the statement of all interest.
Balthezar seeks to gain honour in victory, but is robbed of it by Horatio and his own soldiers.
Taking the combat upon himself he forces the prince to the ground, but is robbed of the full glory of such a capture by the baseness of Lorenzo, who darts in and himself receives Balthezar's surrendered sword.
As a rule Bud was not of a vindictive nature, but he could see that the Merrivale boy had not only been robbed but cruelly hammered by the fists of the two ugly hoboes and it riled the scout considerably.
Stopped you on the road did they, and robbed you of the pay money?
Brasidas broke into their empire in Thrace, and robbed them of Akanthus, Stageira, and some other towns, including their most precious possession, Amphipolis.
He has an idea that in some way I robbedor injured the man.
For some strange reason, I am supposed to have robbed or harmed the one man in the world whose message might bring to nought that Conference.
There is some talk about his having been robbedon the way.
You fellers mean to tell me you're gonna let me be robbed of sixteen hundred dollars?
Overton's regiment, returning from England, were robbed not far from Dunbarr.
A person who is robbed of the proceeds of his labor; a person who is subject to the will of another.
Louis XIV wasrobbed by Fouquet on a large and splendid scale.
Persons living in the neighborhood of the city were robbed by both parties, and their crops carried off or destroyed.
On the retreat the Indians became uncontrollable, and robbed the English officers.
The supineness of Howe robbed the British of all the benefits that might have resulted from the capture of Philadelphia.
Colonel Todd's appointment was especially pleasing to Colonel Clark, who said, in writing to George Mason: "The civil department in the Illinois had heretofore robbed me of too much of my time that ought to be spent in military reflection.
They were robbed of their outfit, and carried as prisoners to Vincennes.
Sweden and France, which secured political and religious liberty for Hungary; but of the 400 churches of which the Protestants had been robbed only ninety were given back.
The attempt to arrest the robbed casket had to be abandoned, because meanwhile the canon Bernard, as keeper of the treasures of the diocese, had fled with its contents to America.
French Reformed theology, but it also robbed Catholic theology =in France= of its spur and incentive.
Anglican church, and robbed the Irish nobles of almost all their estates, and gifted them over to Scottish and English favourites.
Instead of being allowed to land there, he had been carried away by the unprincipled captain, robbed again of his wages, and then marooned on Norfolk Island.
The humour of the moment was not lessened when it was found that the strangely clad procession consisted not of the actual robbers, but of a friendly party who had robbed them in turn.
These were Ruatara and his employer who had robbed him of his wages and had now no further use for him.
They took a small barque laden with hides upon the way, but dismissed her as being useless to them after they had robbed her of her pump.
But the particularly truculent character of the Durani Afghan tribes of Western Afghanistan rendered this journey most dangerous for a single European moving without an armed escort, and he was robbed and maltreated with fiendish persistency.
The lovely gardens of Shalimar had already been robbed of much of their beauty by the transfer of marble and stone from their pavilions for the building of Amritsar, the new religious capital of the Sikhs.
They robbed him of most of his goods, and refused to allow their women to assist his people to dress the reindeer skins out of which it would be necessary shortly to make coverings to protect them from the severe cold of the autumn.
I said I had beenrobbed or lost my money somehow, but he wouldn't believe me.
Now I knew he had not robbed any one while he was with me.
After the man had sworn that J---- was the man who robbed him I was asked to go on the stand and tell what I knew.
Before his visit, his retainer, Mansur, brought me the money of which I had been robbed in Kahva Rukh!
One of the party during a short absence from his tent was robbed of a very valuable scientific instrument.
We stopt all the 29th, and met another caravan, that had beenrobbed within two days journey of Tatta.
Gaundajaw, where we had been robbed but for our guard.
He told me that there was discord among the savages, through which the mountaineers had come down and robbed them.
They exact customs at their pleasure, and even guard passengers through the desert, not willing they should be robbed by any but themselves.
Necessity enforced me to remove, as the town was burnt and utterly desolate, and I was in great danger from thieves, as the soldiers came from camp and robbed during the night.
In the course of my journey, I was robbed of my money, but not of all, having some concealed in certain secret corners.
Among his letters was one from Captain Keeling to the next general, the loss of which gave us much concern; yet we strongly suspected that our messenger had been robbed by his own consent, and had lost nothing but his honesty.
Another villain got this night into the house of a poor widow, meaning to have robbed her; but on her making an outcry, he fled into the wood opposite our house, where the Pagoda stands.
Thanks be to God who loves aged mothers and will not have themrobbed of their children.
By such slanders as these Slimbroek robbed Smetse of all his customers.
How the Miserable robbed a Lombard goldsmith, and of the pleasant speech of the ladies and gentlewomen.
I verily believe, if we had not stopped him, he would have let fly everything, and waited patiently to be robbed and murdered.
You joke merrily on the subject; but it is no laughing matter to those who have been robbed and nearly murdered," said the Greek merchant.
They robbed the pillars tin years ago an' more; I doubt an ye could get through it at all now.
They had robbedthe pillars till they had become too weak to support the roof, and it had tumbled in.
They have confiscated goods that were innocently purchased by me; they have robbed me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "robbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
