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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bereave .
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Examples
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Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
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Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
The World English Bible (WEB): Anonymous
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Abroad the sword bereaves and slays all that comes in its way, and at home all provisions are cut off by the besiegers, so that there is as death, that is, famine, which is as bad as the pestilence, or worse -- the sword without and terror within, Deut. xxxii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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In the streets the sword bereaves, at home death stalks.
Latest Articles 2008
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In the streets the sword bereaves, at home death stalks.
Latest Articles 2008
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For in common is our task, and common to all alike is the right of speech; and he who in silence withholds his thought and his counsel, let him know that it is he alone that bereaves this band of its home-return.
The Argonautica 2008
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DOBBS: Wolf, if I may say this gently; any American who bereaves any candidate promising anything after the experience of the last decade, 25 years, you could perhaps go back even farther, you know, the suggestion that you should believe them on any of it is ridiculous.
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Worst of all for the party attacked, it bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea of poetic and humane conservatism, and impressing the reader with the conviction, that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions, and a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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There is an American disease, a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men in this country, as soon as they have finished their college education, which strips them of all manly aims and bereaves them of animal spirits, so that the noblest youths are in
Uncollected Prose 2006
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There is an immense chain of intermediation, extending from centre to extremes, which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
Representative Men 2006
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