stript
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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.”
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
Ten to one but behind some bush, or under some hedge, we may find the Lady Madam Dulcinea, stript of her enchanted rags, and as fine as a queen.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
They said, surely we will return with thee unto thy people.—And she said—nay—I have nothing to offer you: I go back to my country stript of friends, and substance.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
So, after three years of exercise, the right of signature was to be stript from Seraphina.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
What has stript the seeming beauty From the idols of the earth?
From The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ by Arno Clemens Gaebelein
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