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    despoiled


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    1. I closed the door out of habit, mostly because of Soot encounters, but thinking about it, I reopened the door, thinking that the room was doing well during its airing out procedure, and Soot wasn’t around to despoil things anyway


    2. If the reader is married, and has enjoyed sexual relations, then you don’t need me to draw you a picture, and if the reader is young and pure of spirit, I do not wish to despoil your innocence


    3. Can a city withstand a siege if it is not united? If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand? But you should know that no one can enter into the house of a strong man and despoil his goods except he first overpower and bind that strong man


    4. It was the energy of the English to admire the beauty of unspoiled Nature, while at the same time thinking of ways to despoil it


    5. It was the same energy of the human urge to despoil their first paradise


    6. The same dynamic of the first Biblical human to despoil his own family with greed and envy


    7. The European swindlers did not earn the land which they stole from North American natives: as a result, the land itself became worthless in value except as an excuse which was used to despoil it and destroy it as quickly and as completely as possible


    8. And we are fouling the cleanest remaining resources as fast as we can find them and despoil them


    9. The motivating passion of Homer’s tale of Troy: is the hatred of males for female beauty, and the need to despoil it


    10. Animals that despoil their own dens do the same thing

    11. What happened was horrible, and horribly effective: Europeans indulged themselves even more than they had ever done: in the most evil filth they could find to dirty themselves and destroy life and poison everything that had a living innocent healthy aura to attack and kill and despoil and hate and envy and fear…


    12. sex with his lali; to consummate the relationship, they say, would surely despoil their love


    13. And often rulers and their subjects may come in one another's way, whether on a journey or on some other occasion of meeting, on a pilgrimage or a march, as fellow-soldiers or fellow-sailors; aye and they may observe the behaviour of each other in the very moment of danger--for where danger is, there is no fear that the poor will be despised by the rich--and very likely the wiry sunburnt poor man may be placed in battle at the side of a wealthy one who has never spoilt his complexion and has plenty of superfluous flesh-- when he sees such an one puffing and at his wits'-end, how can he avoid drawing the conclusion that men like him are only rich because no one has the courage to despoil them? And when they meet in private will not people be saying to one another 'Our warriors are not good for much'?


    14. When he has nothing left, must not his desires, crowding in the nest like young ravens, be crying aloud for food; and he, goaded on by them, and especially by love himself, who is in a manner the captain of them, is in a frenzy, and would fain discover whom he can defraud or despoil of his property, in order that he may gratify them?


    15. He comes to despoil


    16. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings


    17. How long will they stay that way if we despoil them?”


    18. But one day the chance was lost forever, in so far as it could come in time to save his loved ones, for he was ordered away upon a long expedition to the ice-clad south, to make war upon the natives there and despoil them of their furs, for such is the manner of the green Barsoomian; he does not labor for what he can wrest in battle from others


    19. The blacks had not as yet come upon Tarzan's cabin on the distant beach, but the ape-man lived in constant dread that, while he was away with the tribe, they would discover and despoil his treasure


    20. to-day, Catharine to-morrow, and the next day Pugatchov; to-day the insane King of Bavaria, to-morrow the Emperor William? Why should I promise this to men whom I know to be wicked or foolish, or men whom I know nothing at all about? Why should I, in the form of taxes, hand over to them the fruits of my labor, knowing that this money will be used to bribe officials, to support prisons, churches, and armies, to pay for the execution of evil acts destined for my oppression? In other words, why should I apply the rod to my own back? Why should I go on wasting my time, averting my eyes, helping to give a semblance of legality to the acts of wrong-doers, play a part in elections, and pretend to participate in the government, when I know perfectly well that the country is ruled by those who control the army? Why should I go into the courts and be a party to the infliction of tortures and executions upon my erring fellow-beings, knowing, if I am a Christian, that the law of love has been substituted for the law of vengeance, and if I am an educated man, that punishment, so far from reforming its victims, serves only to demoralize them? Why should I, in person or in substitute, go and kill and despoil, and expose myself to the dangers of war, simply because the key of the temple of Jerusalem happens to be in the keeping of one bishop rather than in that of another; because Bulgaria is to be ruled by one German prince instead of another; or because the privileges of the seal fishery are reserved for the English to the exclusion of the American merchants

    1. Mountains so high no human track had ever despoiled the virgin purity of their snows, aeons-old


    2. “Second, we must wage peace with the same absolute commitment that we would use to wage war! Let us bring prosperity to the poor with generosity and with training and education and help and camaraderie! Let us restore the lands and wilderness areas that have been despoiled by past wars and disasters! Let us build schools and libraries and parks and gardens for the enjoyment and betterment of all! Let no effort or expense be shirked in these endeavors, for the Nexus threatens our entire world!


    3. The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word


    4. She found it despoiled


    5. ruffians had not despoiled me


    6. ‘[Of those in] the band of enemies, who have despoiled


    7. are nazi spiritualisms: it is what a despot says to the despoiled and disposed


    8. Incensed, Gladys had angrily informed Annie that Kathy’s ‘hellish hound’ had despoiled her prized, blue-ribboned, white furred, pure bred Samoyed named Snowy (which was short for Princess Snow White)


    9. ” Then later with Brigit again by his side and Teller at the tiller he had charted the sampan past the rock of Kau Yiu Chan to the shoreline of Lantau Island at Tai Shiu Hang and a small cove which sheltered a five meter stretch of beach littered with plastic bags and empty torn containers, some of the debris that despoiled Hong Kong’s fragrant harbour


    10. with the knowledge that his cottage had been despoiled and was even

    11. Charles V despoiled Spain inorder to


    12. If Galileo had never discovered the relative facts of Astronomy, we humans would never have despoiled the Earth we live on with such blithe unfeeling abandon


    13. The plains of North America dug up and despoiled


    14. The descended into such misery, and destitution and ignorance and superstitious nonsense: that enlightened Europeans during the middle ages; refused to set foot in that blackened, despoiled, butchered, desolate land… it took hundreds of years for the land that was once Transylvania… to slowly begin to heal from the killing blight… and the killing bite of Vlad the Impaler


    15. taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; having despoiled the principalities and the


    16. despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing


    17. And you, being dead through your trespasses and the un-circumcision of your flesh, you, I say, did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses; having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it


    18. "Luckless that I am!" said Don Quixote, hearing the sad news his squire gave him; "I had rather they despoiled me of an arm, so it were not the sword-arm; for I tell thee, Sancho, a mouth without teeth is like a mill without a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond; but we who profess the austere order of chivalry are liable to all this


    19. When they had despoiled us of all we


    20. adorned with the trophies of my despoiled virginity, bearing hard and

    21. to see crops despoiled


    22. There should be a special place in hell for noblemen who despoiled what peasants had sweated to grow


    23. But ah! what became of me, when as the powers of solid pleasure thickened upon me, I could not help feeling the stiff stake that had been adorned with the trophies of my despoiled virginity, bearing hard and inflexible against one of my thighs, which I had not yet opened, from a true principle of modesty, revived by a passion too sincere to suffer any aiming at the false merit of difficulty, or my putting on an impertinent mock coyness


    24. It was common knowledge that he had refused to be made titular bishop of the Occidental diocese till justice was done to a despoiled Church


    25. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner


    26. I found him examining the apple trees, which autumnal winds had already despoiled of their leaves; assisted by an old gardener, he covered them carefully with straw


    27. "Foolish old man, you have been despoiled; well, what does it signify


    28. Gentlemen propose to protect commerce on this side the Gulf Stream, yet admit if our vessels are despoiled on the Indian Ocean, we must apply retaliation in the West Indies


    29. Finally, after long and minute research in the forests, I discovered the necropolis of Kravelady, composed of dolmens almost completely despoiled, but in sufficiently good condition to permit me to organize the natives in research for burial places of the same sort


    1. When they were sent to infiltrate our camps, hidden by the best detection-prevention spells the human mages had, planting explosives, and despoiling our food and water with magic poisons, we still did not routinely kill human children


    2. In fact he hated his country, and he hated everybody in it, and devised as many ways of systematically impoverishing, terrorizing, killing, starving, and brainwashing his people as possible… while finding as many ways of raping and despoiling the land that he was supposed to have ‘loved’ so much


    3. And after burning that city to the ground, and despoiling Helen into a worthless hag, and sowing the earth of burned Troy with salt, so it would never grow again… his entire fleet tried to return to Greece


    4. The Human race has been shitting on, and despoiling the Earth for 12,000 years now


    5. Both of them were guilty of despoiling the purity of the Garden of Eden with their lust, and were driven out, and have ever since then, been ashamed of their sexual genitals, and practiced the sin of physical lust in secret


    6. that you are despoiling yourself without guarantee—"


    7. But as we neared Zodanga their personal quarrels were submerged by their greater hatred for the red men, and especially for the Zodangans, who had for years waged a ruthless campaign of extermination against the green men, directing special attention toward despoiling their incubators


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