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Letter "B" » bereft
«What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Poet,
Priest)
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Keywords:
bereave,
bereaved,
bereft,
bereft of,
long-lived,
the Wilderness,
weeds,
wet,
wilderness,
wildness
«Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: / I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bereave,
bereaved,
bereft,
bereft of,
by the way,
caul,
devour,
leopard,
Leopards,
rend,
The Wild,
whelp,
whelps
«Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations: / Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.»
«Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! / Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.»
«There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.»
«Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bereave,
bereaved,
bereft,
bereft of,
famine,
pour,
pour out,
put to death,
slain,
The Force,
widows
«Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.»
«Words pay no debts, give her deeds; but she'll bereave you of the deeds too if she call»