despoil

• There we must delve and explore and despoil, plunder and smelt and hammer the metal, restlessly toiling to increase his treasure." —  The Evolution of Love
• Yet this problem to-day, in the unmeasured exhilaration with which riches and power intoxicate the European-American civilization, is considered with the superficial frivolity and the voluble dilettantism that despoil or confuse all the great problems of esthetics, philosophy, statesmanship, and morality. —  The Women of the Caesars
• Not good will toward men who despoil, enslave, degrade, and starve to death their fellow-men. —  The Art of Public Speaking
• They sought not to despoil, to lay waste. —  Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War
• Mr. Blades himself has left this world for a better one, where--so piety bids us believe--neither fire nor water nor worm can despoil or destroy the pages of heavenly wisdom. —  In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays

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