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...
Hems may rise and fall (or do both asymmetrically), and feather boas may come into vogue or go out, but black -- optically destitute of any color -- just keeps rolling along.
The editor's introduction called him "the least favoured by circumstances, and the most destitute of friends, of any [poet] that ever existed".
As soon as any part of the camp, being destitute of defenders, seemed to be hard pressed, thither they ran, and brought assistance.
All things are destitute of power, force, or energy.
As George Washington wrote to Congress, the Continental Army was "exceedingly destitute" of the material.
It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors.
" Financially, I had a good packet in the job, you know, so I'm not destitute by any stretch of the imagination.
Destitute youngsters without any idea of how to take care of themselves, hundreds of them, poured up and down the Ave near the campus in a state of crazed exhaustion, kicking along through rubbish as in the aftermath of a generalized panic or some major disaster, looking hideous in the orange light of street lamps.
I'm still trying to set a good example for you, and the prospect, however remote, of being destitute or needing help of any sort is depressing.
"We became destitute without any food and clothes, and without any means of making an income.
