Jane had always unquestioningly accepted Athena's account of the humiliations and the trials which befall beauty bereft of the care and devotion of beauty's natural protector.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
There was no smoking for the men; I was thus bereft of my last hoped-for consolation.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Sick with the pains of love, bereft of sleep and confounded, I should never have outlived my nights, unless revived by the appearance of thy favor, deceitful as it was.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell