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Examples
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But now all this is to cease for the forest will be disforested.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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I will teach them that the wood was disforested in terms of the great Forest Charter.
Ivanhoe 2004
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These bush-burnings have effectually disforested the land, and in some places building timber and even fuel have become scarce.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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All forests made in present reign to be disforested, and all fences in rivers thrown down.
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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The district was not finally disforested until the reign of James I.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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This was once the centre of a great Royal "Chase," disforested by Charles I.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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In an ancient Briton they would, I take it, be exaggerated, since modern Britain, disforested, drained, urbanified and consequently cosmopolized, is presumably less characteristically British than Caesar's Britain.
Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw 1903
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I will teach them that the wood was disforested in terms of the great
Ivanhoe 1892
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For I was now upon the limit of Velay, and all that I beheld lay in another county-wild Gevaudan, mountainous, uncultivated, and but recently disforested from terror of the wolves.
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For I was now upon the limit of Velay, and all that I beheld lay in another county -- wild Gevaudan, mountainous, uncultivated, and but recently disforested from terror of the wolves.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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