It required a set of skills, and men who were raised on land and bereft of seamanship didn't seek out commissions in the Navy, which helped to inoculate its officer corps from the political patronage system.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Libya's notional freedom seemed like a mirage until we had driven another six hours through a land almost bereft of people, a landscape alternating between desert and a rolling, fertile greensward of farms, and arrived in the old Phoenician city of Benghazi, with its neglected colonial-era Italianate buildings.
Libya's notional freedom seemed like a mirage until we had driven another six hours through a land almost bereft of people, a landscape alternating between desert and a rolling, fertile greensward of farms, and arrived in the old Phoenician city of Benghazi, with its neglected colonial-era Italianate buildings.
Byzantine troops marching towards Transylvania through the territory east of the Carpathians encountered "a land entirely bereft of men" in 1166.
The policemen who wander round this desolate no-man's-land are bereft.
"So she tries to head out," Kashua said, "and she sees an Israeli soldier, and he tells her, 'There are no fields.' " Bereft of her land, she continued to work in Tira, twenty miles north of Tel Aviv, as a hired field hand.
Version C of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes the events thus The valiant Oslac was driven from the country, over the tossing waves, the gannet's bath, the tumult of the waters, the homeland of the whale; a grey-haired man, wise and skilled in speech, he was bereft of his lands.
Arty found himself bereft in a strange land.
We hear sayings like "a Godless world," or "a Godless land," referring to places of extreme harshness bereft of an all-caring, omnipotent creator of our world and us, where an unloved soul can barely survive.
So he finds himself back in the land he fled as a boy, once again bereft of family, carrying with him even fewer possessions than he carried as a refugee.
