All 9 Uses
plunder
in
The Hobbit
(Edited)
- Suddenly in the wood beyond The Water a flame leapt up—probably somebody lighting a wood-fire-and he thought of plundering dragons settling on his quiet Hill and kindling it all to flames.
p. 16.4plundering = thieving
- 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...
p. 23.2 *plunder = stolen goods
- With sacks in their hands, that they used for carrying off mutton and other plunder, they waited in the shadows.
p. 36.7
- There were bones on the floor and a nasty smell was in the air; but there was a good deal of food jumbled carelessly on shelves and on the ground, among an untidy litter of plunder, of all sorts from brass buttons to pots full of gold coins standing in a corner.
p. 41.2
- They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago.
p. 49.7
- "I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North."
p. 49.9plundered = stolen from
- "I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North."
p. 49.9plunderers = thieves
- Then they often got the Wargs to help and shared the plunder with them.
p. 94.8plunder = stolen goods
- He had a wicked and a wily heart, and he knew his guesses were not far out, though he suspected that the Lake-men were at the back of the plans, and that most of the plunder was meant to stop there in the town by the shore that in his young days had been called Esgaroth.
p. 206.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(plunder) to steal -- often after conquering the location with the goods
or:
the goods stolen - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)