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  • In the nineteenth century, Fort Beaufort was one of a number of British outposts during the so-called Frontier Wars, in which a steady encroachment of white settlers systematically dispossessed the various Xhosa tribes of their land.†   (source)
  • They walked slowly toward the gibbet, and the birds took indignant wing, cawing and circling like a mob of angry dispossessed peasants.†   (source)
  • This was more than they had ever expected from the town that only a few months before saw them as the dispossessed.†   (source)
  • They were exiles and sons of exiles, dispossessed and unforgiven …. yet formidable fighters still.†   (source)
  • WOMAN Not many men will brave the curse of a dispossessed husband.†   (source)
  • He would be dispossessed, of me and of himself.†   (source)
  • Send us your poor, your dispossessed, send them by thousands and hundreds of thousands; we'll teach them swift, efficient Lunar methods of tunnel farming and ship you back unbelievable tonnage.†   (source)
  • He recognized the winding road to Aberdeen, anticipated the sight of the gaudy floating restaurants and, beyond, the unbelievable congestion of junks and sampans of the boat people, a massive floating community of the perpetually dispossessed; he could even hear the clatter and slaps and shrieks of the mah-jong players, hotly contesting their bets under the dim glow of swaying lanterns at night.†   (source)
  • As far as Leila was concerned, the valley represented an act of colonial theft and dispossession.†   (source)
  • Jan Hinckart was dispossessed by Farnese, and Leonard I, the Thurn and Taxis Grand Master, reinstated.†   (source)
  • The teacher, a man named Stefan Zaorski, had been a flutist with the Warsaw Symphony, and Sophie had had to cajole and flatter and plead in order to get him to take Eva as a student; aside from the money that Sophie could pay, a pitiful amount, there was little incentive for a dispossessed musician to give lessons in that stark and cheerless city—there were better (although mainly illegal) ways to earn one's bread.†   (source)
  • I had resolved to be calm about my dispossession, to keep my mind on the goal I had given myself.†   (source)
  • Once, the first time, when the rent of the house was two months behind and the landlord was threatening dispossession, it was Felipe Rivera, the scrub-boy in the poor, cheap clothes, worn and threadbare, who laid sixty dollars in gold on May Sethby's desk.   (source)
  • attempting to ease the suffering of the dispossessed people
  • Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.†   (source)
  • 'Dispossessed,' eighty-seven years and dispossessed of what?†   (source)
  • Hell, they been dispossessed, you crazy sonofabitch, get out the way!†   (source)
  • So we've been dispossessed, and what's more, he thinks he's God.†   (source)
  • Because, Brother, the enemies of man are dispossessing the world!†   (source)
  • "We're dispossessed," I sang at the top of my voice, "dispossessed and we want to pray.†   (source)
  • We'll be dispossessed of the very brains in our heads!†   (source)
  • Think about it, they've dispossessed us each of one eye from the day we're born.†   (source)
  • Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed!†   (source)
  • No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†   (source)
  • No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†   (source)
  • Her old fears of the Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist menace had been rekindled by new television worries about the growing numbers of desperate and dispossessed people.†   (source)
  • Dispossessed, Pycelle had moved up next to Cersei, about as far from the dwarf as he could get without claiming the king's seat.†   (source)
  • Saphira balanced there for a moment more, the three of them suspended between the stars and the earth, floating in the silent twilight like dispossessed spirits.†   (source)
  • "You stand before Wyman Manderly, Lord of White Harbor and Warden of the White Knife, Shield of the Faith, Defender of the Dispossessed, Lord Marshal of the Mander, a Knight of the Order of the Green Hand," he said.†   (source)
  • Now that he had a wife and household, his lord father had agreed that more suitable accommodations were required, and Lord Gyles had found himself abruptly dispossessed of his spacious apartments atop the Kitchen Keep.†   (source)
  • A great lord, still virile, with no heirs except these cousins we have just now dispossessed, the scion of an ancient House with a fine stout castle and wide, rich lands that will no doubt be restored and perhaps expanded by a grateful king, once we have triumphed.†   (source)
  • That's a good word, 'Dispossessed'!†   (source)
  • WE'LL BE DISPOSSESSED NO MORE!†   (source)
  • I thought-But now the song was ending and the building rang with applause, yells, until the chant burst from the rear and spread: No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†   (source)
  • I thought-But now the song was ending and the building rang with applause, yells, until the chant burst from the rear and spread: No more dispossessing of the dispossessed!†   (source)
  • So who's being dispossessed?†   (source)
  • And it was as though I myself was being dispossessed of some painful yet precious thing which I could not bear to lose; something confounding, like a rotted tooth that one would rather suffer indefinitely than endure the short, violent eruption of pain that would mark its removal.†   (source)
  • Dispossessed?†   (source)
  • So who was dispossessed?†   (source)
  • It was a symbolic poster of a group of heroic figures: An American Indian couple, representing the dispossessed past; a blond brother (in overalls) and a leading Irish sister, representing the dispossessed present; and Brother Tod Clifton and a young white couple (it had been felt unwise simply to show Clifton and the girl) surrounded by a group of children of mixed races, representing the future, a color photograph of bright skin texture and smooth contrast.†   (source)
  • Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of being dispossessed!†   (source)
  • They've tried to dispossess us of our manhood and womanhood!†   (source)
  • These are the days of dispossession, the season of homelessness, the time of evictions.†   (source)
  • In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain.†   (source)
  • It's dispossess him!†   (source)
  • Do you think he died of dispossession?†   (source)
  • Dispossession!†   (source)
  • Look at that rumba, that suzy-q, he's Sambo-Boogie, Sambo-Woogie, you don't have to feed him, he sleeps collapsed, he'll kill your depression And your dispossession, he lives upon the sunshine of your lordly smile And only twenty-five cents, the brotherly two bits of a dollar because he wants me to eat.†   (source)
  • And with this sense of dispossession came a pang of vague recognition: this junk, these shabby chairs, these heavy, old-fashioned pressing irons, zinc wash tubs with dented bottoms-all throbbed within me with more meaning than there should have been: And why did I, standing in the crowd, see like a vision my mother hanging wash on a cold windy day, so cold that the warm clothes froze even before the vapor thinned and hung stiff on the line, and her hands white and raw in the…†   (source)
  • The organization dispossesses him for the landlord.†   (source)
  • Frequently, brown and withered country women with broods of towhaired silent children spent the night there, women widowed by the war, dispossessed of their farms, seeking relatives who were scattered and lost.†   (source)
  • And then the dispossessed were drawn west--from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.†   (source)
  • Mr. Samgrass was a genealogist and a legitimist; he loved dispossessed royalty and knew the exact validity of the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit…†   (source)
  • …hand-embroidered linen and not only takes command of all the servants who likewise know that she will never tip them because they know as well as the white folks that she will never have anything to tip them with but goes into the kitchen and dispossesses the cook and seasons the very food you are going to eat to suit her own palate; —it's not this, not this that she is depending on to keep body and soul together: it is as though she were living on the actual blood itself like a…†   (source)
  • It was the old school, the Norman baronial attitude, which provided the adventures at this period—for few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed.†   (source)
  • And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous.†   (source)
  • The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression.†   (source)
  • And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand.†   (source)
  • We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.†   (source)
  • Of course these two tribes were the first who were dispossessed of their lands by the Europeans.†   (source)
  • But the time had come when even these kings of birds were to be dispossessed.†   (source)
  • A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.†   (source)
  • The worthy gentleman then became once more the life and soul of the society; being again reinstated in his old post of lion, from which high station the temporary distraction of their thoughts had for a moment dispossessed him.†   (source)
  • They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them.†   (source)
  • But the devil does not suffer himself to be easily dispossessed from a place in which he has fixed his garrison.†   (source)
  • "Let her starn drift down stream, Jasper," said the man of the woods to the young mariner of the lake, who had dispossessed Arrowhead of his paddle and taken his own station as steersman; "let it go down with the current.†   (source)
  • "Words are of no avail," exclaimed her husband: "the habits of forty years are not to he dispossessed by the ties of a day.†   (source)
  • Before the Europeans, or, to use a more significant term, the Christians, dispossessed the original owners of the soil, all that section of country which contains the New England States, and those of the Middle which lie east of the mountains, was occupied by two great nations of Indians, from whom had descended numberless tribes.†   (source)
  • For he had killed as many of the dispossessed lords as he could lay hands on, and few had escaped; he had won over the Roman gentlemen, and he had the most numerous party in the college.†   (source)
  • Nerrick, the landlady, would dispossess us.†   (source)
  • I'll tie a dispossess bomb to your tails that'll blow you out in the street!†   (source)
  • A robbery would be a relief since it would dispossess my mind of the fear of something else.†   (source)
  • Do you think the organization would let the landlord dispossess him?†   (source)
  • He knew, however, that his father's property was going to be sold by auction, and in the manner of his own dispossession he felt the world give the lie rudely to his phantasy.†   (source)
  • And so it was from the 'Guermantes way' that I learned to distinguish between these states which reigned alternately in my mind, during certain periods, going so far as to divide every day between them, each one returning to dispossess the other with the regularity of a fever and ague: contiguous, and yet so foreign to one another, so devoid of means of communication, that I could no longer understand, or even picture to myself, in one state what I had desired or dreaded or even done…†   (source)
  • To-morrow some other little problem may be submitted to my notice which will in turn dispossess the fair French lady and the infamous Upwood.†   (source)
  • He was well aware how much I prized my refuge by the side of my old aunt, and he determined to dispossess me of it.†   (source)
  • Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.†   (source)
  • Forget: a dispossessed.†   (source)
  • Is it possible that that player Shakespeare, a ghost by absence, and in the vesture of buried Denmark, a ghost by death, speaking his own words to his own son's name (had Hamnet Shakespeare lived he would have been prince Hamlet's twin), is it possible, I want to know, or probable that he did not draw or foresee the logical conclusion of those premises: you are the dispossessed son: I am the murdered father: your mother is the guilty queen, Ann Shakespeare, born Hathaway?†   (source)
  • Each house is, as it necessarily must be, the judge of the elections, qualifications, and returns of its members; and whatever improvements may be suggested by experience, for simplifying and accelerating the process in disputed cases, so great a portion of a year would unavoidably elapse, before an illegitimate member could be dispossessed of his seat, that the prospect of such an event would be little check to unfair and illicit means of obtaining a seat.†   (source)
  • Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, Making both it unable for itself And dispossessing all the other parts Of necessary fitness?†   (source)
  • At least our envious Foe hath failed, who thought All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deity supreme, us dispossessed, He trusted to have seised, and into fraud Drew many, whom their place knows here no more: Yet far the greater part have kept, I see, Their station; Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms Though wide, and this high temple to frequent With ministeries due, and solemn rites: But, lest his…†   (source)
  • Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right.†   (source)
  • Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam.†   (source)
  • Restless Amata lay, her swelling breast Fir'd with disdain for Turnus dispossess'd, And the new nuptials of the Trojan guest.†   (source)
  • And thou, sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty, who more than thou Once fawned, and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful Monarch? wherefore, but in hope To dispossess him, and thyself to reign?†   (source)
  • …and dwell Long time in peace, by families and tribes, Under paternal rule: till one shall rise Of proud ambitious heart; who, not content With fair equality, fraternal state, Will arrogate dominion undeserved Over his brethren, and quite dispossess Concord and law of nature from the earth; Hunting (and men not beasts shall be his game) With war, and hostile snare, such as refuse Subjection to his empire tyrannous: A mighty hunter thence he shall be styled Before the Lord; as in…†   (source)
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