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But there would be some minor changes: � In Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In effect, then, the physicist has dispossessed the many imponderables in favor of a single imponderable—though the word imponderable has been banished from his vocabulary.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

Now, however, that the man has taken up arms, and by force has dispossessed Lord Grey, the matter touches all of us who are responsible for the keeping of peace in the Welsh marches.

From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph

Presently Ismene comes with the news that Eteocles has dispossessed his elder brother Polyneices; further, an oracle from Delphi declares that Oedipus is all-important to Thebes in life and after death.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

Thady's son, Jason Quirk, attorney and agent to the estate, has dispossessed the Rackrents; but Thady is still "poor Thady," and regards the change with horror.

From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius