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My mind and heart have not yet lost a friend Even though my senses are bereft,
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2008
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You can bear it, -- nor feel you are wholly bereft,
Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War Margaret J. Preston
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On earth I enjoyed ample wealth, and I used it with great splendour, land, houses, and treasure, cloth, horses, silver and gold; but now I am poor and bereft,
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Then thought they to subdue him/thus of his shield bereft,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Yet, to show his heart was not of human decency bereft,
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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Ancient Pritha weeping followed of all earthly joy bereft,
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878
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But, uv that grace uv lovin 'rains' nd mountain snows bereft,
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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You can bear it, -- nor feel you are wholly bereft,
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-- But, daughter, "he continued after the proper ejaculation had been made," have you never heard, even by a hint, that there was a treaty for your hand betwixt our much honoured lord, of whom we are cruelly bereft,
The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801
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"'Sdeath!" quoth the Knight, of half his powers bereft,
Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." George Colman 1799
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