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Example sentences for "stript"

Lexicographically close words:
stripped; stripper; strippers; stripping; strips; striue; striuing; strive; strived; striven
  1. But an eel can only be once skinned in its life, and even the skin, stript from its writhing body, was supposed to possess a “virtue.

  2. Johny's taen his neat drawn sword, And stript it to the stran: 'Is there any more of your English dogs That wants for to be slain?

  3. Then out he drew a nut-brown sword, I wat he stript it to the stroe, And thro and thro Clerk Saunders' body I wat he garrd cauld iron go.

  4. Now these kings whose hearts God shall set to destroy Antichrist, shall do it without those inward reluctancies that will accompany inferior men: they shall be stript of all pity and compassion.

  5. By this last clause of the verse, 'Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind,' he doth plainly declare, that such days are now stript of their sanction.

  6. It exhibits sin in all its hideous deformity, stript of its masquerade and disguises; so that it appears, what it really is, the great enemy to human happiness.

  7. But I am stript naked of these, and yet am commanded to be faithful in my service for Christ.

  8. And therefore when the Lord God called Adam, he also made unto him an effectual discovery of sin; insomuch that he stript him of all his righteousness (Gen 3).

  9. I was there when the gates were broken ope, And saw how Mansoul then was stript of hope.

  10. Exclaiming thus, o'er his extremest limbs Stript was his skin; he one continuous wound!

  11. Truly, sir, I did happen into bad company by chance, and they cast me in a sleep and stript me of all my clothes.

  12. Now, sir, my business is, that we are by various accidents stript of our money, and are not able to pay our reckoning, being seven shillings.

  13. To dream you stript the bark off any tree, is a sign to a maiden of an approaching loss of a character; to a married woman, of a family bereavement; and to a man, of an accession of fortune.

  14. Any one who has stript from the doctrines of this person the veil of familiarity, will perceive how adverse their spirit is to feelings of this nature.

  15. The examination of this subject requires that it should be stript of all those accessory topics which adhere to it in the common opinion of men.

  16. And those, though they look on this calm, sunny day, To be robed in pure beauty so strikingly grand, Should Boreas arise his least might to display, Would be stript of their charms by his merciless hand.

  17. Stript of his purple, the last Emperor of Rome knelt crying at the feet of the German giant, and begged not to be murdered like his father.

  18. He stript her of her jewels on the spot, and sacked Rome; and that was her reward.

  19. The Town receiv'd not much damage, only some Houses being stript of the Healing, Windows broke, and a Chimney or two blown down.

  20. They stript Gleneavis's only son, a boy about seven years of age, who having gold loops and gold buttons on his cloaths, the soldiers were so greedy of them though half worn that one of them took out his knife and cut them all off.

  21. He burnt Cameron of Cluns's house, took a few cows he had bought after Culcairn had formerly plundered him of all, stript his wife and some others naked as they came into [Sidenote: fol.

  22. Upon the road as she went along she saw heaps of dead bodies stript naked and lying above ground.

  23. At this time the Prince, O'Sullivan and O'Neill had but six shirts amongst them, and frequently when they stript to dry those that were upon them they found those that they were to put on as wet as the ones they had thrown off.

  24. You see 'Twas as I said--the wretch hath stript my father Of jewels which might form a Prince's heir-loom!

  25. Then they stript off their breeches, and took some yards of their match-string and made knots in it, and fiddled them therewith so mercilessly that the blood ran.

  26. When cut, they are stript of the leaves, and rolled up for sale.

  27. And by examining the Cornea or outward skin, after I had stript it off from the several substances that lay within it, and by looking both upon the inside and against the light.

  28. Perhaps the unique copy of The Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt which Warton says was amongst Tanner's books, but which has never appeared in any Bodleian Catalogue, may have perished from this cause.

  29. Well might our Holy Martyr seem to be cast out from his Shrine, and say with groans that he was stript of his garments, and wasted with hunger and thirst!

  30. This thou hast not stript off, this thou wilt never strip off: the humour that thy mother gave thee has to shew itself through this.

  31. This is an ambiguous phrase, and may mean either a forest well cloathed with wood, or well stript of it.

  32. He had not entered far into the wood before he beheld a most shocking sight indeed, a woman stript half naked, under the hands of a ruffian, who had put his garter round her neck, and was endeavouring to draw her up to a tree.

  33. Then having broke a Bough from a Tree and fitted the Ends of it to his Mind, he stript off the Twigs and made it smooth; with this he began to attack the Wild Beasts, assaulting the weaker, and defending himself against the stronger.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stript" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.