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Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despoiled of their armor and silken robes, they fasted, they prayed, they studied the Koran and the tradition of the Sonnites: they performed, with zeal and knowledge, the functions of their ecclesiastical character.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart
Despoiled, but safe, the guillemot rattled away "for another cast"; but the foe settled, riding lightly on the lift and fall of the bottle-green waves.
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
Despoiled of his far more precious treasure, what recks he of that?
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
Despoiled of two of the four statues which adorned it, the monument is now in the tribune, and is still one of the best in the church.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
