Word: bereft
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...upperclassman, bereft of the system which bound him to his firstyear mates, wonders where the Handbook has disappeared, and why its use is restricted to Freshman. For a time he misses it-he is at a loss to discover the final date for this, the opening date for that, the time of the next rapprochement of the Harvard Dames, and many interesting minutiae which fill the pages of the book. But there is no Sophomore Bible and eventually comes the realization that the Phillips Brooks House has rendered to Freshmen the things that are Freshmen's and who-soever shall...
Meanwhile voices bereft of such Divinity, the voices of England's old aristocracy, spoke without mincing of His Royal Highness. They recalled the oft quoted sneer which he may or may not have uttered when his only sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...
...race of students bereft of all but a slight acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors prescribed by the College Board Examinations, he discovers Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato and Aristotle to us as living men. There comes with him a realization of what we have missed in escaping from the classical tradition...
...many days are required to restore Shiloh to his best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged...