Sentence example with the word 'despoiling'

despoiling

Last update: July 16, 2015

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Immediately afterwards Augustus was persuaded by the plausible Livonian exile, Johan Reinhold Patkul, to form a nefarious league with Frederick of Denmark and Peter of Russia, for the purpose of despoiling the youthful king of Sweden, Charles XII.   [Please select]

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Does not the practice of despoiling an enemy afford an excuse for not facing the battle.   [Please select]

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But his generosity and human love were such that, as a child, he could never see poor children suffering without despoiling himself of all he had with him in their behalf.   [Please select]

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As a scholar with philosophical and ethnological leanings, however, he deplores it, and hopes that Priber's valuable manuscripts may escape the despoiling hands of military power.   [Please select]

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