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“The planned office tower will despoil vistas protected for decades,” Mr. Schneiderman said in the amicus brief, submitted to the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2014

Advance; and I will despoil myself still further for thy advantage.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

It will take the color out of the cheek of your wife, it will despoil the husband of pluck and energy and hope.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

Possibly some historical calculator will despoil me of this story.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

IZDUBHAR: But if the Assyrians come, we shall all perish; they will despoil us all.

From The House of Rimmon A Drama in Four Acts by Van Dyke, Henry