| 1. | If mine the glory to despoil the fo. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | And rob a subject, than despoil a foe. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | The victor rushing to despoil the dead. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Then Teucer rushing to despoil the dead. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | He comes to despoil our beloved country.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | The prize contested, and despoil the slain. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | Through heaps of carnage, to despoil the dead. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 8. | "If you were shown a great heap of dolls, and were set upon them to pluck them to pieces and despoil them for your own advantage, you would pick out the richest and gayest. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | alone has been capable of revealing--"tell me that you wish to despoil me of all it will be sooner over than devouring me piecemeal.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | And, for that nothing of her olde gear She shoulde bring into his house, he bade That women should despoile her right ther. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |