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  • The cafeteria at the Chase Manhattan Bank where she worked served dinner to the employees for free, so she would load up with bologna sandwiches, cheese, cakes, whatever she could pillage, and bring it home for the hordes to devour.†   (source)
  • We mean to pillage it.†   (source)
  • I guess we're all just lucky my father faked his own death before he got to the raping and pillaging part of my education, or no one would be safe.†   (source)
  • You'd enjoy seeing the Corps of Sardaukar pillage through my cities and sack this castle.†   (source)
  • …wicked; Hagiophobia = a morbid fear of holy places & things; Lapidicolous = living under stones, as certain blind beetles; Dyspathy = lack of sympathy, fellow feeling; Psilopher = a fellow who fain would pass as a philosopher; Omophagia = eating raw flesh, the rite of some savage tribes; Depredate = to pillage, rob, and prey upon; Aphrodisiac = a drug or the like which excites sexual desire; Megaloda Citylous = having abnormally large fingers; Myrtophobia =fear of night and darkness.†   (source)
  • Yet our friends of yesterday were probably waiting behind their shutters for the moment when they could pillage our homes.†   (source)
  • The violence that led young Grace Balegamire from Congo to Clarkston in the early twenty-first century had its origins in the 1870s, when King Leopold II of Belgium established the Free State of Congo, a corporate state that pillaged the region around the Congo River of its natural resources, terrorized the population, and gave way over time to a collection of politically unstable nations divided by ethnic tension.†   (source)
  • Plenty can still go wrong: Bernard may get jealous and take it out on her; wild animals could kill her goats; a drought could destroy her crops and leave her with debts; continued instability in Burundi could lead armed groups to pillage her crops.†   (source)
  • While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.†   (source)
  • All the way home, Manda steadfastly defended Adam to their parents, maintaining that it was no big deal if Adam had some friends over for a little party—till she found that her closet had been rifled and some clothes were missing, her jewelry box had been pillaged, and her bed had been more than just slept in.†   (source)
  • The Japanese army raped and pillaged with full encouragement from its superiors.†   (source)
  • Although," he added, "given their successful track record for looting and pillaging, I can't say that they were incorrect."†   (source)
  • She's happy to still be visible in the mind's eye as queen mother of America's once fearsome radical counterculture, through which she stomped in her leather miniskirt, shouting about racism and classism and exhorting her fellow travelers to bomb, pillage, and "freak out the honky establishment."†   (source)
  • The looters went to town, pillaging, raping.†   (source)
  • Let's take back our pillaged eyes!†   (source)
  • Marauding and pillaging by redcoats and Hessians had gotten out of hand.†   (source)
  • It reaches horrendous proportions because of the terrible losses incurred by the war -- "the natives were slaughtered en masse with gun or machine-gun shots" -- and the pillage of enormous herds -- "4,613 head of cattle and 3,659 head of small livestock."†   (source)
  • It made you wonder how much the nature of Charleston depended on its deliverance from pillage and fire.†   (source)
  • Came from a Spanish ship they pillaged, I reckon.†   (source)
  • Pillaged and burned.†   (source)
  • Men with wives and sisters felt this obligation a good deal more seriously, filling their letters with references to protecting "the fair daughters of my own native state …. from Yankee outrage and atrocity," from the "varlet's tread," the "fiendish vandals" and "despoiler of Southern homes," shielding "the loved ones who call upon me to defend their homes from pillage."†   (source)
  • You know, David, it's the dawn of the twenty-first century, and you live in the richest, most powerful nation on Earth where there's almost no one starving and no one enslaved and no one invading to murder and pillage and rape.†   (source)
  • Inability to Tax Leads to Pillaging/Decay†   (source)
  • He and his people had come to pillage Tin-Towns, yet Bruenor's underlying attitude seemed more the concern of a stern father than the callous perspective of a slave's master.†   (source)
  • I thought you and Feeney and a few of your hedonistic friends were going out to rape and pillage.†   (source)
  • Florence and Alice passed the dead woman and pillaged wreck on the way to town.†   (source)
  • This is no longer a bickering at the fords, raiding from Ithilien and from Anorien, ambushing and pillaging.†   (source)
  • That place had been captured by the rebels and pillaged.†   (source)
  • And deep inside, the money is racked ready for pillage, rapine, loot.†   (source)
  • They were tearing off the heavy cobs, and putting them into the half-sacks tied round their waists, while others followed, cutting down the pillaged stalks and leaning them in small pyramids that regularly dotted the field.†   (source)
  • The ancient city was pillaged centuries ago.†   (source)
  • Clearly there was a ground crew who stayed on the island when the others were out pillaging.†   (source)
  • "The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin must withdraw beyond these borders, and cease his raiding, burning, and pillage.†   (source)
  • Pillaged from Thebes and brought up here to decorate Russia's new imperial city, St. Petersburg.†   (source)
  • And no stopping for looting or pillaging!†   (source)
  • Burning, looting, pillaging—now there was a demigod!†   (source)
  • Also for pillaging and burning said cultures.†   (source)
  • We've been looting and pillaging ships on the Mare Nostrum for eons."†   (source)
  • However, the boat was pillaged and then burned.†   (source)
  • …reached the back door, he gave them a penny to spend, and they ran off; and when Cook asked him what all that was about, he said he would rather have them following under his command, than pelting him with clots of mud and horse dung, which was their habit with peddlers, who could not chase them away without abandoning their packs; which if they did, would swiftly be pillaged by the little ruffians; so he'd chosen the wiser course, and employed them, and taught them the song himself.†   (source)
  • Crouching like that, she's like a doll, an old one that's been pillaged and discarded, in some corner, akimbo.†   (source)
  • Then a few trigger-happy lads used the sign for shotgun practice, and the tables and toilets were removed by the provincial government — something to do with budgets — and the waste bin never got emptied, although it was frequently pillaged by raccoons; so they took that away as well, and now the place is reverting.†   (source)
  • "Telling Shagga and Timett how to pillage is like telling a rooster how to crow," Tyrion commented, "but I should prefer to keep them with me."†   (source)
  • And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad'Dib.†   (source)
  • It was unpleasant work, rapping on people's doors at four in the morning and telling them that the ship had been boarded by pirates, that they were requested to please throw on a robe and come to the lounge while their rooms were pillaged.†   (source)
  • You pillaged their libraries and gathered up their stores of knowledge, and as of yet, you have shared none of that lore with anyone else.†   (source)
  • It was in pretty good shape, considering it was more than two thousand years old, had been pillaged from Athens, toted to Rome, and secretly stored in a spider's cavern for most of the past two millennia.†   (source)
  • Consequently, the local governors [bashaws] pillage the people without mercy, squeezing from them the money the emperor needs to satisfy his needs and those of the state.†   (source)
  • You are the ones, after all, who have been rampaging across the countryside, burning and pillaging as you please, not I. And yet you have the audacity to claim that I am in the wrong!†   (source)
  • "You cannot ask my river lords to remain idle while their fields are being pillaged and their people put to the sword," Ser Edmure said, "but Lord Karstark is a north-man.†   (source)
  • Before the Washington's crew had apprehended the blacks in pitched battle, the AmistacTs buccaneers had spent the last three months on a pirating spree along the eastern seaboard, pillaging, murdering, and sinking unsuspecting ships.†   (source)
  • Both their bodies and minds had adapted to the depths, and luckily for all who dwelt under the open sky, the evil dark elves were content to remain where they were, only occasionally resurfacing to raid and pillage.†   (source)
  • The collection began to be pillaged.†   (source)
  • The penalty for robbery or pillage, or for harboring highwaymen, or for failure to make known information concerning their whereabouts or movements, is death by hanging.†   (source)
  • No matter how well stocked their kitchens might once have been, or what they had purchased or pillaged on The Day and in the chaotic period immediately after, four months had exhausted everything.†   (source)
  • Pete could have died and Rita could have decamped; or she could have been killed, the house pillaged, and everything she was holding, including the truck and gasoline, stolen.†   (source)
  • The phrase seemed to describe an action of modified assault and restrained pillage.†   (source)
  • Of course the painting may have been ruined in a pillage or massacre.†   (source)
  • Merlyn had taught him to distrust the logic by which countrysides could be pillaged for forage, husbandmen ruined, soldiers slaughtered, so that he himself should pay a scathless ransom, like the Coeur de Lion of the legends.†   (source)
  • And in this pillage of the loaded shelves, he found himself wedged firmly into the grotesque pattern of Protestant fiction which yields the rewards of Dionysus to the loyal disciples of John Calvin, panting and praying in a breath, guarding the plumtree with the altar fires, outdoing the pagan harlot with the sanctified hussy.†   (source)
  • The whole district north of the Vindhias is the theatre of incessant murders and pillage.†   (source)
  • The neighbors devastated the garden and pillaged the rare flowers.†   (source)
  • That we undertake to guard our people against inconveniences, larcenies and pillage.†   (source)
  • Nothing new, except that the soldiers are robbing and pillaging—October 9.†   (source)
  • Were you not going to outrageously attack and pillage your lord, the bailiff of the palace?†   (source)
  • Penetrating the baggage-car, they pillaged it, throwing the trunks out of the train.†   (source)
  • They had stolen, violated, pillaged, murdered, assassinated.†   (source)
  • "It is very sound: one can't permit the land to be pillaged and accustom the troops to marauding.†   (source)
  • The wages of our servants are putting France to the pillage!†   (source)
  • In the massive blocks of stone and heavy timbers and solid doors and shutters showed the hand of a man who had builded against pillage and time; and in the flowers and mosses lining the stone-bedded stream, in the bright colors of rugs and blankets on the court floor, and the cozy corner with hammock and books and the clean-linened table, showed the grace of a daughter who lived for happiness and the day at hand.†   (source)
  • I should make formal acknowledgment to the authors whom I have pillaged in the following pages if I could recollect them all.†   (source)
  • Again he went pillaging.†   (source)
  • There was no one to picture the battle the union leaders were fighting—to hold this huge army in rank, to keep it from straggling and pillaging, to cheer and encourage and guide a hundred thousand people, of a dozen different tongues, through six long weeks of hunger and disappointment and despair.†   (source)
  • No; there must be a master craftsman behind this border pillage; a master capable of handling those terrors Poggin and Knell.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, good heavens! otherwise they would swarm over the river in their multitude to the side where those great buildings were, secure and stately. and they would pillage, burn, and sack.†   (source)
  • And she has been fooled in the first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty.†   (source)
  • The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.†   (source)
  • The whole business of the human race, between London and Dover, being spoliation, Mr Dorrit was waylaid at Dartford, pillaged at Gravesend, rifled at Rochester, fleeced at Sittingbourne, and sacked at Canterbury.†   (source)
  • "But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails," replied Stuart; "suppose they stop the trains, pillage the luggage-vans, and scalp the passengers!"†   (source)
  • …Beings—taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from us—I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were…†   (source)
  • Again, he had set in movement a band of scholars, who had flung themselves upon a wine-shop in classic fashion, quasi ~classico excitati~, had then beaten the tavern-keeper "with offensive cudgels," and joyously pillaged the tavern, even to smashing in the hogsheads of wine in the cellar.†   (source)
  • It then became a country of huge and foul workshops and fouler gambling-dens, surrounded by an ill-kept, poverty-stricken farm, pillaged by the masters of the workshops.†   (source)
  • But to pillage the public purse, and to vend the favors of the State, are arts which the meanest villain may comprehend, and hope to practice in his turn.†   (source)
  • Felton only expressed, with regard to the duke, the feeling of execration which all the English had declared toward him whom the Catholics themselves called the extortioner, the pillager, the debauchee, and whom the Puritans styled simply Satan.†   (source)
  • It is the same men, they say; there is no relief corps; those who are erect pillage those who are prone on the earth.†   (source)
  • But every man who has formed one of the innumerable army of travellers has seen these marauding irregulars hanging on, like Nym and Pistol, to the main force, wearing the king's colours and boasting of his commission, but pillaging for themselves, and occasionally gibbeted by the roadside.†   (source)
  • Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.†   (source)
  • See Marshall's "Life of Washington," p.Footnote b: A large portion of the adventurers, says Stith ("History of Virginia"), were unprincipled young men of family, whom their parents were glad to ship off, discharged servants, fraudulent bankrupts, or debauchees; and others of the same class, people more apt to pillage and destroy than to assist the settlement, were the seditious chiefs, who easily led this band into every kind of extravagance and excess.†   (source)
  • But on the Monday in question the Committee of Public Safety, on the one hand afraid of general unorganised pillage, and on the other emboldened by the wavering conduct of the authorities, sent a deputation provided with carts and all necessary gear to clear out two or three big provision stores in the centre of the town, leaving papers with the shop managers promising to pay the price of them: and also in the part of the town where they were strongest they took possession of several…†   (source)
  • It profits a people but little to be affluent and free if it is perpetually exposed to be pillaged or subjugated; the number of its manufactures and the extent of its commerce are of small advantage if another nation has the empire of the seas and gives the law in all the markets of the globe.†   (source)
  • Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of Moscow it had borne within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.†   (source)
  • It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging.†   (source)
  • Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness.†   (source)
  • Among the Old Guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening, last night, and today.†   (source)
  • A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines.†   (source)
  • That is why we call upon you to return the girl if you wish to save your church, or we will take possession of the girl again and pillage the church, which will be a good thing.†   (source)
  • The Emperor is extremely displeased that despite the strict orders to stop pillage, parties of marauding Guards are continually seen returning to the Kremlin.†   (source)
  • The destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,—that is revolt.†   (source)
  • He lifted his cap again, and continued, still dreamily, with the air and accent of a hunter who is cheering on his pack of hounds: "Good, my people! bravely done! break these false lords! do your duty! at them! have at them! pillage them! take them! sack them!†   (source)
  • At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking the prisoners in a stable, had gone off to pillage their own stores, several of the soldier prisoners tunneled under the wall and ran away, but were recaptured by the French and shot.†   (source)
  • In Germany, during a given period, summed up by Schiller in his famous drama The Robbers, theft and pillage rose up in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and honest masses,…†   (source)
  • In the majority of such cases, the neighbors did not meddle with the matter unless the pillaging extended to themselves.†   (source)
  • From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle.†   (source)
  • They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple.†   (source)
  • And who substituted for the ancient gothic altar, splendidly encumbered with shrines and reliquaries, that heavy marble sarcophagus, with angels' heads and clouds, which seems a specimen pillaged from the Val-de-Grâce or the Invalides?†   (source)
  • He lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on pillaging the cartouches, emptying the cartridge-boxes, and filling his basket.†   (source)
  • In truth everything presented itself in a dark and gloomy light to Prince Andrew, especially after the abandonment of Smolensk on the sixth of August (he considered that it could and should have been defended) and after his sick father had had to flee to Moscow, abandoning to pillage his dearly beloved Bald Hills which he had built and peopled.†   (source)
  • The French patrol was one of those sent out through the various streets of Moscow by Durosnel's order to put a stop to the pillage, and especially to catch the incendiaries who, according to the general opinion which had that day originated among the higher French officers, were the cause of the conflagrations.†   (source)
  • I will follow you wherever there is room for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their heads together, and that, at midnight, or at daybreak at latest, four columns would march…†   (source)
  • The victory gained did not bring the usual results because the peasants Karp and Vlas (who after the French had evacuated Moscow drove in their carts to pillage the town, and in general personally failed to manifest any heroic feelings), and the whole innumerable multitude of such peasants, did not bring their hay to Moscow for the high price offered them, but burned it instead.†   (source)
  • The flower-beds of Saint-Cloud perfumed the air; the breath of the Seine rustled the leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, the clover, and the sterile oats; in the august park of the King of France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds.†   (source)
  • The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.†   (source)
  • Robbery and pillaging continue.†   (source)
  • During the month that the French troops were pillaging in Moscow and the Russian troops were quietly encamped at Tarutino, a change had taken place in the relative strength of the two armies—both in spirit and in number—as a result of which the superiority had passed to the Russian side.†   (source)
  • The neighborhood of my ward continues to be pillaged by soldiers of the 3rd Corps who, not satisfied with taking from the unfortunate inhabitants hiding in the cellars the little they have left, even have the ferocity to wound them with their sabers, as I have repeatedly witnessed.†   (source)
  • They will be pillaging your city soon!†   (source)
  • Besides this, the country is not pillaged by your officials; the subjects are satisfied by prompt recourse to the prince; thus, wishing to be good, they have more cause to love him, and wishing to be otherwise, to fear him.†   (source)
  • And I can tell you how the case will be, if Zeus beyond the stormcloud, and Athena, allow me ever to storm and pillage Troy: I pledge a gift to you, next after mine, a tripod or a team with car, or else a woman who will sleep with you.†   (source)
  • And to the prince who goes forth with his army, supporting it by pillage, sack, and extortion, handling that which belongs to others, this liberality is necessary, otherwise he would not be followed by soldiers.†   (source)
  • These poltroons are left, hollow men, dancers, heroes of the dance, light-fingered pillagers of lambs and kids from the town pens!†   (source)
  • I promised him his honored son, brought back to Opoeis, as pillager of Ilion bearing his share of spoils.†   (source)
  • If the immortals grant us the pillaging of Priam's town, you may come forward when the spoils are shared and load your ship with bars of gold and bronze.†   (source)
  • Then, too, I would have pillaged the two 'sons of Aktor' and Moliones—but their true sire , who rules the wide sea and sets earth a-tremble hid them in cloud and saved them from the war.†   (source)
  • But while you lie here by the swanlike ships, night and day, close by, deep-breasted women of Troy, and Dardan women, must lament and weep hot tears, all those whom we acquired by labor in assault, by the long spear, pillaging the fat market towns of men.†   (source)
  • Voltaire, whose light touch on familiar institutions opens them and reveals their absurdity, likes to remind us that the slaughter and pillage and murder which Candide witnessed among the Bulgarians was perfectly regular, having been conducted according to the laws and usages of war.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately introduced; which made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer, and where the whole praise, as well as pillage, has been engrossed by the chief commander, who perhaps had the least title to either.†   (source)
  • Some obtain these testimonials with good intentions, others put them to a cunning use; for when they go to pillage on Christian territory, if they chance to be cast away, or taken prisoners, they produce their certificates and say that from these papers may be seen the object they came for, which was to remain on Christian ground, and that it was to this end they joined the Turks in their foray.†   (source)
  • I saw folk under it up to the brow, and the great Centaur said, "These are tyrants who gave themselves to blood and pillage.†   (source)
  • Now, whoever hath had the honour to be admitted to any degree of intimacy with this mob, must well know that it is one of their established maxims to plunder and pillage their rich neighbours without any reluctance; and that this is held to be neither sin nor shame among them.†   (source)
  • *pleased To ransack in the tas* of bodies dead, *heap Them for to strip of *harness and of **weed, *armour **clothes The pillers* did their business and cure, *pillagers <9> After the battle and discomfiture.†   (source)
  • The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn, squeezes out of them the sums of which he stands in need, to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state.†   (source)
  • Our company was soon encreased by the addition of several gentlemen from the gaming-table; most of whom, as I afterwards found, came not to the tavern to drink, but in the way of business; for the true gamesters pretended to be ill, and refused their glass, while they plied heartily two young fellows, who were to be afterwards pillaged, as indeed they were without mercy.†   (source)
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