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  • She hugged all of us except Dad—she had refused to speak a word to him since he plundered Oz—promised to write, and climbed into the station wagon.†   (source)
  • Chapter Four — Plundering Germany.†   (source)
  • "I hope my son will amount to more than a thief or a plunderer, Borgin," said Mr. Malfoy coldly, and Mr. Borgin said quickly, "No offense, sir, no offense meant —"†   (source)
  • They form a closed society, into which strangers are brought only as plunder.†   (source)
  • It was empty by morning, though whether licked clean by Forte or plundered by the squirrels he couldn't tell.†   (source)
  • We'd even emptied all the ketchup and mustard bottles scrounged from the apartments, all of which had been opened and plundered for whatever we could find.†   (source)
  • They were plunderers, of that I had no doubt.†   (source)
  • And there were no NPC villains, monsters, or aliens for me to fight, so there was no treasure or magic items for me to plunder.†   (source)
  • It didn't run anywhere useful, so he had drawn up a plan to plunder it for metal and build more hoverpaths in and around the valley.†   (source)
  • Out of curiosity, she looked in the little English dictionary, and to her surprise she found the word there, too: raptor \ n [deriv. of L. raptor plunderer, fr.†   (source)
  • I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often—as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.†   (source)
  • Spoils of Rome's imperial plundering, obelisks were scattered across Rome and referred to by symbologists as "Lofty Pyramids"-skyward extensions of the sacred pyramidal form.†   (source)
  • The private who brought it to him described plundering the villa they took it from; he called it "shopping."†   (source)
  • Beyond the horse gate, plundered gods and stolen heroes loomed to either side of them.†   (source)
  • He felt richer than Robinson Crusoe with all the plunder from that sunken ship.†   (source)
  • There were no crypts, treasure rooms, plundered sarcophogi, wall murals, or secret passages, merely a maze of senseless corridors through sweating stone.†   (source)
  • I hope he hasn't been plundering a nest again.†   (source)
  • Dr. John Dee had lived in Ojai briefly at the turn of the twentieth century it was still called the city of Nordhoff then when he'd been plundering the surrounding Chumash burial grounds for their precious artifacts.†   (source)
  • More and more frequently German gangs invaded Jewish homes, plundered them and took the furniture away in vans.†   (source)
  • Humans, who have been given the task to lovingly steer the world, instead plunder her with no consideration, other than their immediate needs.†   (source)
  • So that he could plunder the Silent City without worrying about the Conclave.†   (source)
  • The port consisted of half a dozen palm huts and a store made of wood, with a zinc roof, and it was protected by several squads of barefoot and ill-armed soldiers because there-had been rumors of a plan by the insurrectionists to plunder the boats.†   (source)
  • He fled with his plunder as my frail neighbor slowly suffocated beneath the weight of the mattress.†   (source)
  • Rome was plundered by bar-barians in 410, and in 476 the whole of the Western Empire was destroyed.†   (source)
  • All of that part of Westchester County, from the Connecticut border over to the Hudson River, had gotten to be a kind of no man's land, with roving bands wandering around plundering people on the excuse that they were part of the war.†   (source)
  • How should we treat you, though, if we defeat Galbatorix and Nasuada gives your race the land you have asked for and, twenty years from now, your children begin to kill and plunder so they can win mates?†   (source)
  • Only when a fire starts in a row of 'em hit cleans up the Company's property same as it does the plunder of the folks that lives in 'em.†   (source)
  • The next day, up in the more affluent North Division, Jonas Hutchinson was numbed by the spectacle he beheld: "As far as the fire reached, the city is thronged with desperadoes who are plundering and trying to set new fires….†   (source)
  • The side streets are weary with uncollected garbage and broken glass, with the odd plundered car squatting flat on its axle and men who stand in doorways completely adream.†   (source)
  • This natural highway was also the path Hunza raiding parties historically took to plunder the Braldu Valley.†   (source)
  • She snorted, and showed plainly that she thought the Gamgees capable of plundering the hole during the night.†   (source)
  • Or do you want to plunder, and die?†   (source)
  • There was not an organ of his body that had not been drugged and derogated, dusted and dredged, fingered and photographed, removed, plundered and replaced.†   (source)
  • Once it's all outside, he and Turner will leave and the plundering will commence.†   (source)
  • Instead, his father talked of the Jewish world in Europe, of the people he had known who were now probably dead, of the brutality of the world, of his years in Russia with the Cossack bands looting and plundering.†   (source)
  • In 1918, while the United States fought in the trenches of Europe, raiders like Pancho Villa crossed the border to loot and plunder.†   (source)
  • And if they spoke back, would the impatient businessmen in conventional suits and tired housewives with their plunder, understand?†   (source)
  • To put a stop to increasing instances of plunder by the troops, Howe initiated punishments more severe even than the standard for the British army.†   (source)
  • One moment the tension was vicious, then the spear of pleasure arrowed into her, so dragging her head back by the hair and plundering her mouth.†   (source)
  • Lambs led to the slaughter on the altars of greed as this American cartel of financial plunderers cornered markets, selling inferior goods and services at inflated prices, claiming by way of false documents to have Washington's approval to deliver thousands of restricted items to us and our satellites.†   (source)
  • She had no family, no friends: a true victim, ripe for plundering.†   (source)
  • The cavaliers routed the forces in his parish and plundered his own dwelling of all that was portable—brass, pewter, and cloth.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 52 Separated We brought our plunder in through the south vent, though this meant that the jeep would have to be moved before dawn.†   (source)
  • Hrothgar's messengers answered with friendly words and praise of the man they'd just plundered, as if the whole thing had been his idea, then whipped up the oxen, pulled up their loaded back-slings, and started home.†   (source)
  • They ran for two blocks, finally coming to a sudden stop, where they gasped for breath and plundered Max's sweets.†   (source)
  • He was arrested for plundering.†   (source)
  • The Kagame administration was accused not of having started this ongoing catastrophe, but of escalating it -- and also, by a UN panel of inquiry, of having joined various other governments in plundering the Congo's mineral wealth.†   (source)
  • We also have bite-sized chocolates plundered from the office for dessert.†   (source)
  • But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property-then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.†   (source)
  • After weeks of marches and raids, he's escaped to the wild with child slaves and plunder, far from even the nearest safari camp.†   (source)
  • She said she named it the first day she and Papa got there, with Mama driving the ox cart loaded with our house plunder, and with Papa driving the cows and horses.†   (source)
  • I thought of the taking of beleaguered cities, the fury of plunder, and the forcing open of feminine mouths to receive the conqueror's semen.†   (source)
  • He loved ordered gardens and hated to see beds ravaged by Lalla's plundering.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he wrote to his mother in 1862, "I joyfully embrace it as a means of repelling a dastardly, plundering, oppressive, and cowardly foe from our homes and borders….†   (source)
  • I sink down onto the top of a trunk next to the one I've just plundered.†   (source)
  • They are indispensable, if only for protection against the plundering of the Indians.†   (source)
  • Everything now hinged on the assent of Heafstaag, a brutal king interested only in personal glory and triumphant plunder.†   (source)
  • Predator: one who plunders, loots, wastes, destroys, preys upon, etc. But no word could really be bad enough for …. him!†   (source)
  • Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†   (source)
  • There was a single exception to the general look of plunder—the radio-phonograph.†   (source)
  • She was carrying the plunder on a broad leaf, like canna or ti, only bigger.†   (source)
  • So near to the forest, in fact, was the palace called Plunder that the animals stalked past the one transparent wall, brushing against it as they went.†   (source)
  • His fighting record over the past few months included the actions at Nizhni Kelmes and Ust-Nemdinsk, the suppression of the Gubysov peasants who had put up armed resistance to food levies, and of the men of the 14th Infantry who had plundered a food convoy.†   (source)
  • The shops have been plundered; they just devour everything.†   (source)
  • When she was a woman grown, well past thirty as she reckoned it, with one husband buried? but the master had given her another? armies, plundering and burning, had come from the North to set them free.†   (source)
  • Appomattox had ended the shooting of brother by brother; but it did not halt the political invasions, the economic plundering and the intersectional hatred that still racked a divided land.†   (source)
  • As we peer into society's future, we--you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.   (source)
    plunder = stealing
  • Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; and they guard their plunder as long as they live   (source)
    plunder = stolen goods
  • Max froze as though he'd been caught plundering a cookie jar.†   (source)
  • Miss Stuart was in exile, from plundered Scotland still declining, three thousand miles away.†   (source)
  • I dealt with you in good faith, and here I find you plundering my house while my back is turned.†   (source)
  • Or what remains after Galbatorix plundered it.†   (source)
  • I've been plundering their ships since Gravenmuir was raised.†   (source)
  • The prisoners are NOT to be searched or plundered: those are my orders.†   (source)
  • I have been more khal than queen, smashing and plundering, then moving on.†   (source)
  • But their swinish indulgence in plundered luxury is not enjoyment, it is escape.†   (source)
  • Raiders in longships, plundering fishing villages.†   (source)
  • If a war breaks out in Europe, it will be a miracle if we escape attacks and plundering from Europe.†   (source)
  • No. The Orcs have often plundered Moria; there is nothing left in the upper halls.†   (source)
  • "Soldiers and sailors plundering," wrote Deacon Newell on March 13.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki sacked cities and plundered kingdoms, they did not rule them.†   (source)
  • If you do this, Yunkai will not be burned or plundered, and none of your people shall be molested.†   (source)
  • Others curse him as the plunderer of their fleets.†   (source)
  • By mid-May he had reached the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier at 21,000 feet, where he plundered a supply of food and equipment cached by Eric Shipton's unsuccessful 1933 expedition.†   (source)
  • To be rendered unconscious; to lie exposed, without shame, at the mercy of others; to be touched, incised, plundered, remade — this is what they are thinking of when they look at him, with their widening eyes and slightly parted lips.†   (source)
  • And he paid insufficient attention to the plundering of the natural environment—the serious consequences of which we are experiencing today.†   (source)
  • Mornings, while the campers fried bacon and flipped pancakes, he and the dogs lingered in the weeds; later, those same cabins would stand empty, ripe for plundering.†   (source)
  • Here he had assembled all his treasures that had escaped being plundered by the Germans: a wide couch covered with a kelim, two valuable old chairs, a charming little Renaissance chest of drawers, a Persian rug, some old weapons, a few paintings and all kinds of small objects he had collected over the years in different parts of Europe, each of them a little work of art in itself and a feast for the eyes.†   (source)
  • I will not have the city plundered.†   (source)
  • The country was stripped and plundered years ago and they found nothing in the houses and buildings by the roadside.†   (source)
  • The buildings you see were made by slaves brought here from lands they've plundered, and they built each after the fashion of their own peoples."†   (source)
  • As the early Athens began to develop on the plain below the plateau, the Acropolis was used as a fortress and sacred shrine… During the first half of the fifth century B.C., a bitter war was waged against the Persians, and in 480 the Persian king Xerxes plundered Athens and burned all the old wooden buildings of the Acropolis.†   (source)
  • It always seemed a most iniquitous scheme to me—[to] fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.†   (source)
  • Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers.†   (source)
  • Then Nasuada was speaking to him again: "…. hope that you have kept tight rein over your men and not let them run wild in Aroughs, burning, plundering, and taking liberties with its people?"†   (source)
  • While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.†   (source)
  • Then he sent plundering Orcs, and they carry off what they can, choosing always the black horses: few of these are now left.†   (source)
  • The armies began to cheer and stamp and resume their guzzling of plundered wine as the procession came into view.†   (source)
  • As Hrothgar had done, this younger king was systematically burning and plundering nearby halls, extending the circle of his tribute power.†   (source)
  • Beyond its stirring preamble, most of the document before Congress was taken up with a list of grievances, specific charges against the King—"He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns…… He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny…… " And it was the King, "the Christian King of Great Britain," Jefferson had emphasized, who was responsible for the horrors of the slave trade.†   (source)
  • Three-and-fifty, less the Shark The Crow's Eye had sailed halfway across the world, reaving and plundering from Qarth to Tall Trees Town, calling at unholy ports beyond where only madmen went.†   (source)
  • Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen, and, as a result, his stock had never been higher.†   (source)
  • As the Cinnamon Wind was creeping past another plundered fishing village, a war galley came sliding from the fog, stroking slowly toward them.†   (source)
  • Trembling, I stood before them, drenched in sweat and ruin, spiritually plundered, fearing them and loathing myself for my stink, my helplessness, my total lack of power.†   (source)
  • Either the people will be plundered, as a substitute for legitimate taxation, or the government will sink into a fatal atrophy and perish.†   (source)
  • In ancient days, the ironborn had boldly sailed the river road and plundered all along the Mander and its vassal streams …. until the kings of the green hand had armed the fisherfolk on the four small islands off the Mander's mouth and named them his shields.†   (source)
  • Just as the mystic is a parasite in matter, who expropriates the wealth created by others-just as he is a parasite in spirit, who plunders the ideas created by others-so he falls below the level of a lunatic who creates his own distortion of reality, to the level of a parasite of lunacy who seeks a distortion created by others.†   (source)
  • …no one had been able to enter the Great Sept of Baelor for days afterward; the Lady of the Eyrie had been murdered by a singer; Littlefinger ruled the Vale now, but Bronze Yohn Royce had sworn to bring him down; Balon Greyjoy had died as well, and his brothers were fighting for the Seastone Chair; Sandor Clegane had turned outlaw and was plundering and killing in the lands along the Trident; Myr and Lys and Tyrosh were embroiled in another war; a slave revolt was raging in the east.†   (source)
  • Before him, in the flesh, was the "tyrant" who, in the language of the Declaration of Independence, had plundered American seas and burned American towns, the monarch "unfit to be the ruler of a free people," while to the King, he himself, Adams knew, could only be a despised traitor fit for the hangman's noose.†   (source)
  • A man plunders to build up wealth to pay his men and bring peace to the kingdom, but the hoard he builds for his safety becomes the lure of every marauder that happens to hear of it.†   (source)
  • All had been broken and plundered; but beside the shattered lid of one there lay the remains of a book.†   (source)
  • "The Hessians are more infamous and cruel than any," wrote Ambrose Serle, after hearing reports of British plundering.†   (source)
  • Defense against Legislative Plundering   (source)
  • Daario had plundered himself a whole new wardrobe in Meereen, and to match it he had redyed his trident beard and curly hair a deep rich purple.†   (source)
  • You, who dare to regard us as the moral inferiors of any mystic who claims supernatural visions-you, who scramble like vultures for plundered pennies, yet honor a fortune-teller above a fortune maker-you, who scorn a businessman as ignoble, but esteem any posturing artist as exalted-the root of your standards is that mystic miasma which comes from primordial swamps, that cult of death, which pronounces a businessman immoral by reason of the fact that he keeps you alive.†   (source)
  • With Rickon by their side, the Walders plundered the kitchens for pies and honeycombs, raced round the walls, tossed bones to the pups in the kennels, and trained with wooden swords under Ser Rodrik's sharp eye.†   (source)
  • And once he and his men began plundering the town, gangs with axes, drunken soldiers and sailors rampaged in the streets, breaking open houses and shops at will.†   (source)
  • The region is well-cultivated, with very attractive plantations, but all their occupants had fled and all the houses had been or were being plundered and destroyed.†   (source)
  • Most of the shops and inns and alehouses around the harbor had been plundered or burned, though some looked still inhabited.†   (source)
  • At Maidenpool, Lord Mooton's red salmon still flew above the castle on its hill, but the town walls were deserted, the gates smashed, half the homes and shops burned or plundered.†   (source)
  • On the first night his Hessian troops set foot in New Jersey, Captain Ewald wrote, "All the plantations in the vicinity were plundered, and whatever the soldiers found in the houses was declared booty."†   (source)
  • They lead the relentless foreigners to the houses of their neighbors and strip poor women and children of everything they have to eat or wear; and after plundering them in this sort, the brutes often ravish the mothers and daughters and compel the fathers and sons to behold their brutality.†   (source)
  • The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him Yet I have never heard of these Unsullied raping, nor putting a city to the sword, nor even plundering, save at the express command of those who lead them.†   (source)
  • …to be a Stromberg Carlson, which she assumed to be Swedish until Bronek—a simple-seeming but canny fellow Polish prisoner who worked as a handyman in the Commandant's house and was a chief purveyor of gossip and information—told her it was an American machine, captured from some rich man's joint or foreign embassy to the west and transported here to take its place amid the mountainous tonnage of booty assembled with frenzied mania for pelf from all the plundered habitations of Europe.†   (source)
  • Now, after the passing of time in this bloody century, whenever there has occurred any of those unimaginable deeds of violence that have plundered our souls, my memory has turned back to Nathan—the poor lunatic whom I loved, high on drugs and with a smoking barrel in some nameless room or phone booth—and his image has always seemed to foreshadow these wretched unending years of madness, illusion, error, dream and strife.†   (source)
  • He got dressed and they set out down the beach carrying the last of their plunder.†   (source)
  • What have the Freys been doing while the Lannisters burn their fields and plunder their holdfasts?†   (source)
  • Why break a contract that offered them the prospect of good wages and good plunder?†   (source)
  • The older thieves were fools who thought no further than turning a night's plunder into wine.†   (source)
  • Will you drink with me, or do you want to plunder, and die?†   (source)
  • You truants might make amends by finding us some of the plunder that you spoke of.†   (source)
  • That, and the plunder we have taken here, will give us sufficient gold to buy provisions.†   (source)
  • Surely it was not plunder acquired from its poor farmhouse victims.†   (source)
  • He means to plunder our armory, Jon realized.†   (source)
  • At a stone quay stood three great cogs and a dozen smaller ones, taking on plunder and provisions.†   (source)
  • The history of confederacies shows that states tend to plunder the federal government's authority.†   (source)
  • There will be no battle, no slaughter, no city to sack and plunder.†   (source)
  • Force is all they know, force, fraud and plunder!†   (source)
  • No drunkards, I said, and no squabbles over plunder.†   (source)
  • Is it only the plunder they sec? she wondered.†   (source)
  • Random wars would be followed by PLUNDER and devastation.†   (source)
  • These are not raiders, out to steal a wife and some plunder.†   (source)
  • He came to sack a city, and Hizdahr peace has cheated him of his plunder.†   (source)
  • The only men captured were three who had hung back to plunder.†   (source)
  • It's said he's a good soldier, and openhanded with the plunder."†   (source)
  • The plunder might serve to keep that Lysene pirate Salladhor Saan loyal for a time.†   (source)
  • Balon Greyjoy thinks in terms of plunder, not rule.†   (source)
  • Whatever plunder she takes will be hers alone.†   (source)
  • Plunder interests them no more than rape.†   (source)
  • Gold given freely is better than plunder bought with blood, surely?†   (source)
  • No prospect of plunder or glory to lure freeriders to my cause.†   (source)
  • Rufe, got any long, strong, lightweight line in that plunder?†   (source)
  • He was gone a while, using a flashlight around that beachhead dump of plunder.†   (source)
  • Parisians on weekend holidays would drink aperitifs here, and before them the occasional emissary from the republic—ministers and vice ministers and abbots and admirals—and in the centuries before them, windburned corsairs: killers, plunderers, raiders, seamen.†   (source)
  • Best friend of thieves and plunderers!†   (source)
  • Odysseus thought it might be good for plunder, or else they might beg hospitality from its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.†   (source)
  • Tell them they may ride with Vargo Hoat and plunder as they like—goods, stock, women, they may take what they want and burn the rest.†   (source)
  • He talks of leading his khalasar east after Rhaego is born, to plunder the lands around the Jade Sea.†   (source)
  • My lord Hand, if these good folk believe that Ser Gregor has forsaken his holy vows for plunder and rape, let them go to his liege lord and make their complaint.†   (source)
  • Most of them were smallfolk: crofters, fieldhands, fishermen, sheepherders, the sons of innkeeps and traders and tanners, leavened with a smattering of sellswords and freeriders hungry for plunder.†   (source)
  • Timett led the Burned Men home, with all the plunder they took from Stannis's camp after the fighting.†   (source)
  • He dismounted and unrolled his plunder and opened the box of shells and put half of them in his pocket and checked the pistol that it was loaded all six cylinders and closed the cylinder gate and put the pistol into his belt and rolled his gear back up and retied the roll behind the saddle and mounted the horse again and rode into the town.†   (source)
  • Another Virginian, though, a captain in one of the regiments that burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in 1864, described that event with pleasure in a letter to a cousin: "Our men soon became drunk & mad for plunder.†   (source)
  • "Ain't you goin' to pack your plunder in?" inquired the bridegroom harshly, almost threateningly, as he pitched out upon the path a number of bundles and boxes.†   (source)
  • He needs to get adjusted to an environment in which fixing and hustling have come out of the shadows of black-market speculation to create a wholly open economy of plunder and corruption.†   (source)
  • Let the plunder be taken and warmth secured for the long winter before he changed the original agreement and redistributed the booty.†   (source)
  • It was a hybrid apartment, between a large closet and a small room; one four-paned window gave scant light and ventilation; all the broken or disused plunder about the house was pitched into it, and in the middle sat a tumbled bed.†   (source)
  • It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.†   (source)
  • If ever he was to bring disciplineto bear, check this "lust for plunder," and stop wholesale desertions and widespread drunkenness, he must have new rules and regulations authorizing harsher punishments.†   (source)
  • Is there no pipe in all your plunder?†   (source)
  • Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!†   (source)
  • Below, his men were spilling out his chests, a cascade of silver, gold, and gems, a wealth of plunder.†   (source)
  • You did not care to allow rewards to be won by successful production-you are now running a race in which rewards are won by successful plunder.†   (source)
  • Saruman I knew had despatched his full strength against you, and his servants had turned aside from all other errands and gone to Helm's Deep: the lands seemed empty of enemies; yet I feared that wolf-riders and plunderers might ride nonetheless to Meduseld, while it was undefended.†   (source)
  • Lord Euron will gorge himself on gold and plunder, aye, but as soon as we move against him he will back to Pyke, as Lord Dagon was wont to do in his day.†   (source)
  • It doesn't expect to be told that love is blind, that plunder is achievement, that gangsters are statesmen and that it's great to break the spine of Hank Rearden!†   (source)
  • Old Botley, who was called Fishwhiskers, sat scowling by his pile of plunder while his three sons added to it.†   (source)
  • They'll plunder our property.†   (source)
  • The plunder from Astapor was much less than you were promised in Volantis, and I took the lion's share of it."†   (source)
  • Lord Balon had let no word of the hosting escape the Iron Islands, and Theon's bloody work along the Stony Shore would be put down to sea raiders out for plunder.†   (source)
  • With the kind of social elements now on the loose-why, Miss Taggart, it's all I can do to keep them in line or we'd have plunder and bloody murder in broad daylight.†   (source)
  • He drank deep, wiped his mouth, and let them bear him off to their cook-fires, to listen to their talk of war and crowns and plunder, and the glory and the freedom of his reign.†   (source)
  • You have heard it said that I believe that this system has depravity as its motive, plunder as its goal, lies, fraud and force as its method, and destruction as its only result.†   (source)
  • Now she was fled, and the small household she'd left could not begin to tend the needs of all the knights, lords, and highborn prisoners Lord Tywin had brought, so the Lannisters must forage for servants as well as for plunder and provender.†   (source)
  • Many were bedecked with plunder.†   (source)
  • A few wanted to assault the city immediately, lest the Volantenes rob them of their glory and the best part of the plunder.†   (source)
  • He wrote of the "lust after plunder" among the men, of regimental surgeons taking bribes to certify sickness or infirmities that would qualify for discharges.†   (source)
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