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Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them.
From Time Magazine Archive
A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best lines in the Cantos are very good indeed: What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee .
From Time Magazine Archive
The dikes were cut; the labour of centuries was lost; the ocean resumed its sway over the fields reft from its domain.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
The godly woman therefore lived in this prison, reft of her goods but not of her life, of which she most desired to be reft.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
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