stript
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Is it that we cannot enjoy a wit till we have stript him of every worldly advantage, and reduced him below the level of our envy?
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
The shadows were stript slowly from the great mesas and the weird buttes and strange desert sculptures stood out in absolute distinctness.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Roosevelt, Wyn
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 Clark, John A.
He was declared infamous, incapable of obtaining dignities, stript of the habit and cross of his order, and banished from Madrid, Valladolid, and Toro, but was prohibited from quitting the kingdom.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio
When cut, they are stript of the leaves, and rolled up for sale.
From An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Hamilton, Francis
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