All things are destitute of power, force, or energy.
Their claims for household goods were still unpaid, and they were destitute of everything needful for use and comfort.
As soon as any part of the camp, being destitute of defenders, seemed to be hard pressed, thither they ran, and brought assistance.
Indeed, the state of patent law in the common law courts before 1800 led one historian to observe that "the reported cases are destitute of any decision of importance...
The next morning, a banner headline in the newspaper screamed "AFTER ALL, IT'S ONLY A GAME!" and an editorial thundered against the president for being destitute of team spirit.
His style is destitute of ornament, but in the rhetorical passages, which are numerous, it is animated, forcible and at times eloquent.
In the past, Clinton had dismissed Tompkins as being "destitute of language, science, and magnanimity a mere creature of accident and chance, without an iota of real greatness".
Not that we were destitute, of course, but there's a bit of a difference between buying a $200 Dreamcast and shelling out $4,000 on a PC with a 3DFX card or whatever.
The tyrants of Pherae, Lycophron and Peitholaüs,55 who were destitute of allies after the death of Onomarchus, gave Pherae over to Philip, while they themselves, being protected by terms of truce, brought together their mercenaries to the number of two thousand, and, having fled with these to Phaÿllus, joined the Phocians as allies.
So that, if its jurisdiction be extended over other countries that have no actual share in its legislature, it becomes arbitary to them; because they are destitute of those checks and controuls which constitute that moral security which is the very essence of civil liberty.
