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Frazier was also highly infuriated that the ostentation of the Ohtas' $250,000 hilltop house was despoiling nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a steam-loader and three camps of a hundred men each, it was despoiling the Tennessee forest.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace

He stole a glance at her; at the loving light that shone in her bright blue eyes; at the soft glow, red as the carnation she was despoiling, on her conscious cheek.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Instead of aiding the Devil, he was despoiling him.

From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Erdman, Charles Rosenbury

The teacher was despoiling the tree of its pop-corn festoons and tossing them gaily about.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor