Such exactions were not collected without extreme harshness of enforcement, sometimes stripping the tax-payer of all that he possessed, and even tearing him from his family to be sold in person for a slave.
To such as were in the stripping vein he would very civilly come to offer his attendance, and cover them with his cloak, like a courteous and very gracious man.
The actual sale was over, but the work of stripping the house only begun, and successful bidders were dragging off their spoils.
Stripping a corpse of its shirt, he tore off a piece of stuff to make a bandage for a shattered leg.
The idea of strippingand plunging into ice-cold water began to make a delicious appeal to him.
Her face was suddenly as white as the hands from which she was swiftly, nervously stripping her gauntlets.
I can't believe it," he said, stripping the leaves from the thorn bushes and briars that came within touch of his swinging hand.
They were engaged instripping the count's bushes of their fruit and devouring it by the handful.
Yes, I should," said Gwenna quietly, stripping her grass.
Here the tall girl reached for the silver shoe-horn off Gwenna's dressing-table, and proceeded to use it as the Greek youth used his strigil, stripping the warmed unguent from her face and neck.
But what she said, with her hand stripping a spike of flowering grass, was, "I suppose it's like practising scales and all that on a mute piano?
The King of men, stripping their corselets, bared Their shining breasts, and left them.
Lest, stripping him of his resplendent arms, The Myrmidons with foul dishonor shame 660 His body, through resentment of the deaths Of numerous Grecians slain by spears of ours.
But if you rightly look at the black you will find out that there is white below it, and it only needs a very little stripping off of a film to make it into white too.
There is nothing so powerful in stripping off from our besetting sins their disguises and masks as to go to God with the honest petition: 'Search me .
The strippingof the bark, the pounding it with stones, the macerating it with water in a big carved wooden bowl, and its presentation to the Prince and other guests in coco-nut shells, was performed with solemn chanting.
He was, moreover, convinced, that no one but himself could have carried the schooner through so frightful a storm, or would have invented the noble expedient of driving instead of stripping her!
Once he thought ofstripping to the waist in Comanche fashion, but his body, protected from the sun, was white, and he would be detected instantly.
The autumnal equinox is on, and its gales have commenced stripping the trees of their foliage.
Possibly in the scramble, on the robbers first seizing hold and hastily stripping her, this particular one had slipped through their fingers, fallen to the floor, and so escaped observation.
Meanwhile our victories were stripping Italy of her treasures.
The main body was already stripping the plants of their precious fruit.
Father Noah as viciously as hornets roused to anger by the stripping of a decayed thatch.
This is trailing cattle with a vengeance," said he, stripping his saddle from a tired horse.
The seniors had him over in a corner, stripping him, talking excitedly.
Upstairs a couple of rubbers took charge of him, stripping him and rubbing him rigorously.
For the "Conqueror" had carried off with him the elite of the troops quartered in Bristol, almost stripping it of a garrison, to the no small annoyance of Nathaniel Fiennes.
The first two are obtained bystripping the leaves of the plants into narrow lengths.
The object of contriving thestripping machine illustrated and described here was to furnish a quick means of preparing palm and pandan straws with uniform widths and clean cut edges.
For stripping sabutan leaves, the mat weavers of Tanay, Rizal, use a kind of comb which is discussed under the heading "Sabutan.
Possibly they may no longer attack large caravans, but undoubtedly they rob, when and where they can, and they have a horrid habit of stripping their victims, leaving them with but one under garment, if they do not kill them.
They have a gesture, often used by Aziz Khan in his descriptions of raids, which means stripping a man to his shirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stripping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
