Robbed

Examples

• The truth is, he was attached to the lady's maid in question, and indignant that she should have been robbed of her perquisites. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It robbed me of a pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The Turkish conquests and the expansion of the known world robbed the Roman Empire of its former prestige of universality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He shot a man in a duel--he's over head and ears in debt, and he's robbed me and mine of the best part of Miss Crawley's fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Robbed last night, sir. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mrs. Weston's poultry-house was robbed one night of all her turkeysevidently by the ingenuity of man. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Robbed with a false key. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn't robbed the pantry, in a false position. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• At first he robbed the brute of his fleecy skin and wore it bodily. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The very seal that sealed it had been robbed from George's dead body as it lay on the field of battle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Luker was robbed of a receipt which he had got from his banker's--was he not? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A terrible sense of fatality robbed her of all feeling and thought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was robbed at first setting out, and have walked all the way, and have never slept in a bed since I began the journey. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A few days before he had held up a Union Pacific train and robbed all the passengers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It's enough to be robbed while you're snoring because you're too comfortable, without being put right with _your_ four seven ones. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I know precisely the dishes you prefer---- She robbed these dishes of flavour, and made a fool of me besides. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Many hundreds of fishes have, in all their varieties, been robbed of life for my repast, and of the smaller fry as many thousands. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Is he never robbed? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Could they have been waylaid and robbed? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Pain has been robbed of its terrors by an?sthesia; the heat of the sun has been brought down in the electric furnace, and the cold of inter-stellar space in the ice machine and liquid air. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But as to your ideas that the man had robbed the house before William tackled him, I think it a most absurd notion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The places of the outer world and the temples of the therns had been robbed of their princesses and goddesses that the blacks might have their slaves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Has he robbed you? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why, he might be robbed fifty times over! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Are you the party that's been robbed, sir? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There was no killing, you understand; but sometimes the peasants objected to be robbed, so there was often a fight, ending in broken heads. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They are robbed of Self-deception; they must either serve or openly defy the idea of service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Bank's robbed! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Tell me all you can of the years that I have been robbed by a relentless fate of her dear companionship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered in London. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Theresa