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There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
By our greed, we had despoiled the environment and were consuming a disproportionate share of the world's wealth and resources.
Since arriving back, he said he seen numerous examples of beauty spots being despoiled.
It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled.
Some of the country's finest beaches are despoiled during the summer, with discarded nappies, bottles, crisp packets and even animal carcases.
His father's fate is echoed in the stories of despoiled artefacts and the laughter of orphaned children.
The ablest officials rarely despoiled their reputations by engaging with them.
Environmentalists say the forests of South-East Asia have been massively despoiled and are warning west African governments not to follow suit.
A century from now, much more of the world will likely have been despoiled.
They must also search for the dead and prevent their remains from being despoiled.
They have been deceived and despoiled so many times that they invest much effort in getting to know the people they're dealing with well.
A culture can be spread through influence or by gift, and it can be destroyed if it is despoiled.
When we say the poor, the socially poor or the economically poor we want to say those who are lacking everything, are despoiled of all.
When I spotted a deer on a hike, I took it as a sort of assurance that not everything has been despoiled and that the natural order remains at least somewhat intact.
Inflows of foreign capital are discouraged when tourist sites become despoiled.
In 2004 and 2005, for instance, MBDHP supported two young girls in recovering inheritance of which they had been despoiled.
A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled.
This Epano Englianos palace, together with dependent despoiled tombs, appears to match closely the dignity and position of the royal seat as described by Homer.
The Guardian feared the icon would be despoiled – as if the World Service audience would be treated to a steady diet of stories about car crashes on the M25 instead of analyses of Indian politics.
My group's sympathy goes out to the people of Brittany who have seen their area despoiled by this disaster, just as my group's sympathy went out to the people of West Wales and to the Shetland Islands on previous occasions.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Other districts have in this way been despoiled to some extent of their proper meed of honour.
The little temple in which I was gaoled had been robbed and despoiled of all its furnishments.
They must make an effort to recover the horses and cattle of which they had been despoiled.
The list of despoiled landowners is a long one, and need not here be recorded.
Death having despoiled him of his mitre and crosier, drags him away.
He had been despoiled of everything, and threatened with imprisonment.
He went softly across the room and despoiled the bowl of a spray.
When the prize was taken, the prisoners were questioned, and despoiled.
I say the two, because Cardinal Rospigliosi, who had not taken any precaution, was completely despoiled.
I see youth full of discouragement and fear, I see it timid and despoiled, when it ought to be rich and powerful.
Pryderi, as has been seen, was despoiled of his swine by Gwydion.
I wager my head against a dipper that you will have opened the door, rescued the girl, and despoiled the chief altar before a single beadle is awake.
Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of poplars despoiled by the winter, bent with each breath of the wind.
Within a week all the blooming roads had been despoiled, hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
Despoiled of his far more precious treasure, what recks he of that?
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