bereave

• “bereave" in Eze 36: 13; but "cause to fall" or "stumble," in the Hebrew text or Chetib, being the more difficult reading, is the one least likely to come from a corrector; also, it forms a good transition to the next subject, namely, the moral cause of the people's calamities, namely, their falls, or stumblings through sin.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . .”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

• “To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom.”

  The Most Ignominious Chapter of Our History : Law is Cool

• “Anyway, indefinite detention without any review is worse than just killing: To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must once convey the alarm of tyranny thoroughout the whole kingdom.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question

• “Voyage, which she was very unwilling to permit, as being loth to bereave my Father of his Company; and therefore most earnestly invited Him along with me; but he cou'd not be prevail'd upon to leave his beloved Cell, which no doubt was to him a certain Heaven, where his devout Soul conversed daily with the Powers divine.”

  Exilius

• “To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.”

  OpEdNews - Quicklink: Froomkin: A Blow Against Tyranny

• “God help us! by Gallaher on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 12: 32: 12 AM change we can bereave in by io on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 4: 23: 44 AM”

  Obama and the Great Depression

• “Then he wept for her with sore weeping and said to his brothers, “It was not well of you to do this deed and bereave me of my wife.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Rejoined Afridun, “May the Messiah not bereave us of thy venerable parent nor deprive her of her wile and guile!””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• ““May Allah never bereave thy friends of thee nor make them desolate by shine absence, O son of my uncle, O my dear cousin!””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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