Stripped

Examples

• The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. Plato. The Republic.
• As it was pushed forward, the stalks next the heads came between these sharp teeth and were cut or stripped off into a box attached to and behind the cutter bar and carried by two wheels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It's a very fine skin, as you may see, but I didn't have it stripped off! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And when they are housed, they will work, in summer, commonly, stripped and barefoot, but in winter substantially clothed and shod. Plato. The Republic.
• The russet woods stood ripe to be stripped, but were yet full of leaf. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am simply, in my original state--stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity covers human deformity--a cold, hard, ambitious man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The simple illusions of her girlhood are gone, and my hand has stripped them off. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In an instant he had stripped off his coat and was hard at it with the fat, dirty turnpike-man. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Men say that the keeper has complained to his official, and that he will be stripped of his cowl and cope altogether, if he keeps not better order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• So he stripped himself of every safeguard, in making this admission to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The intestines are stripped and cleaned for sausage casings. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The trouble with these attachments was that they were either stripped off, or stripped away, by the gun spirals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At that moment Edison, stripped pretty nearly down to the buff, was at the very crisis of an important experiment, and refused absolutely to be interrupted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He had stripped the magical prestige from the absolutist monarchy in France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But stripped to their personalities, Louis XVI was hardly gifted enough or noble-minded enough to be Franklin's valet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We had one favourite spot, deep in moss and last year's leaves, where there were some felled trees from which the bark was all stripped off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But if the paint and the ribbons and the flowers be stripped from it, a skeleton will be found beneath. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The sky was stripped bare of clouds by the increasing gale, while the tide at its ebb seceded entirely from the town. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I thought they'd a had her all stripped up afore I could get 'em off. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But they seized the boy, and stripped the hated coat from his back and pushed him into the pit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The large bay windows were naked, the floor was stripped, and a border of dark polish went round the tract of pale boarding. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Not a muscle twitched, nor a tremor shook his giant frame as a soldier of the guard roughly stripped his gorgeous trappings from him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It had even stripped some of the threads of the bolts, and we could never find that cover. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I deliver MYSELF over to the unknown, in coming to you, I am without reserves or defences, stripped entirely, into the unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One great old pear-tree--the nun's pear-tree--stood up a tall dryad skeleton, grey, gaunt, and stripped. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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