reave

Mary would not reave these people until they could be taken care of by Christian workers.

"Why, then, let us reave him of even that!"

The dire mountains appeared to reave the trees of autumn and calm.

Had you that craft to reave her Of what should stead her most?

"We are mortal, you and I. The attempt would reave us to the marrow.

Our aim had only been to reave some more weapons, especially light portable ones for our men-atarms.

"Do they not see that, if they aid him now, this Reeve will presently reave them, one by one?"

"I hold the keystone of Time, and I will reave it to rubble!

'More like are we to reave him of his crown Than make him knight because men call him king.

You reave Sivit of an eh-Brand.

Reave the Just and Other Tales (1999)

You reave, Rod-san?

The Drowned God had made them to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and write their names in fire and blood and song.

Failing all else, thou must reave the life from thine only son, even as thou hast reft mine from me."

If you wanna reave baby I won t beg you to stay And if you wanna go darling maybe it s better that way.

Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine; Stanch and strong the tendrils twine: Though the frail ringlets thee deceive, None from its stock that vine can reave.

Winner: Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen R. Donaldson (HarperCollins Voyager 1998; Bantam Spectra)

So he could do nothing but sit with Triock's unanswerable head in his lap, and weep while he waited for the reversal of his summons, the end which would reave him of the Land.

Freedom forbids their tyrannous reign here, Flee to their prison must they, nor deceive; Love had a lightning that shall strip them clear, Truth through the curtain of the dark shall reave.