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  • Bereft of heroism, thrust into a new corporate world, he haunts the robot novels.

    Interplanetary Manifest Destiny Erika Nelson 2009

  • Bereft of heroism, thrust into a new corporate world, he haunts the robot novels.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Erika Nelson 2009

  • Bereft of his spectacles, he peered short-sightedly across at the Chancellor of the

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • Bereft of his home, Eragon and Saphira embark on a quest for vengeanceone that soon embroils them in an epic battle between good and evil.

    Two Essays by Christopher Paolini 2010

  • Bereft of his fantasies, his ambition, his wealth, his good looks, he ended his days under the protection of the friendship of Madame de La Fayette author of "The Princess of Cleves", dwelling on the dark thoughts that he continued to refine for the various editions of his "Collected Maxims."

    Puncturing Our Pretensions Joseph Epstein 2011

  • Bereft of prayers or the obligatory rites of Jewish mourning, Feiler finds this "secular shiva" to be a natural outgrowth of our busy, complicated lives without religion in the Digital Age.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Sitting Shiva For Traditional Shiva Rabbi Jason Miller 2012

  • Bereft, bothered, and bewildered, he returns home to see his father who, in a breathtaking plot twist, reveals what happened to Miriam audiences may be shocked by the film's ending.

    George Heymont: Puttin' On The Glitz (Two Hot New Gay Movie Musicals) George Heymont 2011

  • Bereft of husband and child, a lonely Catherine began to read the histories, philosophy and literature of Greece and Rome and of the Enlightenment.

    Catherine the Great's Lessons for Despots Robert K. Massie 2011

  • Bereft, bothered, and bewildered, he returns home to see his father who, in a breathtaking plot twist, reveals what happened to Miriam audiences may be shocked by the film's ending.

    George Heymont: Puttin' On The Glitz (Two Hot New Gay Movie Musicals) George Heymont 2011

  • It was fine for us children, but a desperately anxious time for our mother: “Bereft of her husband incommunicado with Chiang Kai-shek’s government in the far west of China, of her father and brother in a Japanese interment camp near Shanghai, and of her own mother in the blitz in London, my mother listened in the kitchen to the BBC news, hearing the Axis extending its reach through the world on an ever-widening front.

    Peter Pouncey - An interview with author 2010

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