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    pillaged


    1. In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit


    2. This fence had been constructed from material pillaged from fences in the interior of the walled area, Then it was fortified with earthen embankments and had a walkway six foot up to provide sentries with a good vantage point from which to see and to fire


    3. He had seen lives interrupted by burned bridges and pillaged coffers


    4. I put it to you that even grave pillaging may very well have to do with God’s wrath and that the chosen, true child of God, will never have their grave pillaged


    5. To take everything scripture teaches regarding this subject and nullify it on the basis that some graves have been pillaged is the same as saying: “My child stole a cookie, therefore I amputated his hands”


    6. be rewarding to bypass the place that we pillaged and block their avenue of escape


    7. locating the Underworlders who have pillaged and destroyed


    8. He stared at the familiar towers and streets of Tarantia, where a mob seethed and screamed, and at the same time he was somehow able to see the banners of Nemedia moving inexorably westward through the smoke and flame of a pillaged land


    9. So he moved across the pillaged land, halting only to rest his horse, eating frugally of the food Zelata had given him, until, on a dawn when he lay hidden on a river bank where willows and oaks grew thickly, he glimpsed, afar, across the rolling plains dotted with rich groves, the blue and golden towers of Tarantia


    10. Squirrel Girl had hoped to balance their loss with the advantage of not being hunted as they pillaged fields

    11. Most of the stones had been pillaged from the diamond mines in the north east of Sierra Leone, where the alluvial mining was conducted by scores of people scraping away at the surface before washing the gravel to find diamonds


    12. It reminded her too much of the Vik men who had pillaged their city


    13. They had raped and pillaged all through the Balkan states


    14. Both internally and externally the dome was not only a work of art, but held a sinister secret item that Mohammed had included, which would ensure, that unlike the Egyptian pharaohs, who’d left their treasures to be pillaged and plundered


    15. Mohammed’s prized treasures had been raided, looted and pillaged only three days after his death


    16. When a person’s inner joy is pillaged it leads to abuse of their health through various forms


    17. right which appeared to have been completely pillaged with not a


    18. They debated whether it was better to kill a few barbarians, who had probably raped and pillaged their way around the known world, or put the innocent lives of the entire population at risk


    19. This means that with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers had sexual intercourse with diseased prostitutes and whores and raped women and children when they pillaged the villages they plundered


    20. In south America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the native inhabitants: but their cultures and their legal systems as well… and after destroying their cultures, replaced them with their own vastly more corrupt culture and a single corrupt language that is so unwieldy; you cannot express a logical thought in any logical sequence

    21. Their empire was so huge that the new barbarians, no matter how much they pillaged, could never pillage all of it


    22. The energy backlash of that; was to turn the city of Rome into the most repeatedly conquered city on earth during the Middle Ages… After its demise: it was pillaged and burnt and raped over and over and over


    23. They had no idea that outside of their sacred, glorious city… that millions of poor humans hated them and had hated them ever since their armies had come into their lands and raped, sacked, pillaged, and butchered them, and taxed them into poverty, and oppressed them, and humiliated them, and spat upon them as things that were not even human


    24. It had been a plan that had called for a lot of patience on the part of the Russians, as they saw their country burned and pillaged by the French


    25. From makeshift torches its touch pillaged the chiseled high harvests of man


    26. "`We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior 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 made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!'


    27. He was encouraged in this by perceiving that the stock of provisions carried by the ass had come safe out of the fray with the galley slaves, a circumstance that he regarded as a miracle, seeing how they pillaged and ransacked


    28. attacked and pillaged by the Bedouins, and the pilgrims were taken prisoners


    29. And even if that hadn’t been true, once the Host crossed into Siddarmark, there simply wouldn’t be any towns or villages to be pillaged in the first place


    30. PIRATE FUN FACT: The types of goods pillaged, depended on the type of ship encountered, therefore many pirates were very selective in the ship they attacked, to be certain that the booty received was worth the risks of battle

    31. ‘It is very sound: one can’t permit the land to be pillaged and accustom the troops to marauding


    32. ‘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


    33. What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, murdered, assassinated


    34. The neighbors devastated the garden and pillaged the rare flowers


    35. They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard SaintMartin, and three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other


    36. Lewis Scot pillaged Campeche and left it a black, smoking pile


    37. It is said that he rules a wild race of pirates; that he has captured towns and pillaged cities


    38. I dare say poor chatelaines had to do that in time of famine, when their lands had been pillaged


    39. 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


    40. It was not only deserted buildings that were pillaged in this way

    41. The sacramental vases, the images, all the monuments consecrated by the piety of the faithful, were pillaged or dragged ignominiously about the streets


    42. The author of the Journal de la Guerre confirms these details—“In one quarter,” he relates, “cries of ‘Murder!’ were heard, dying away into sighs and groans; in another, the inhabitants were besieged in their houses, defending their already pillaged and devastated hearths against a soldiery infuriated by drunkenness and exasperated by resistance


    43. Imagine a table in the middle of the street, houses in flames or smoking ruins on all sides, the wind driving dust and smoke into our faces, incendiaries shot down near us, drunken soldiers carrying away the booty which they had just pillaged


    44. When he unlocked his door and went out to his household at eleven o'clock they told him that the runaway convict and brigand, Fedka, who was a terror to every one, who had pillaged churches and only lately been guilty of murder and arson, who was being pursued and could not be captured by our police, had been found at daybreak murdered, five miles from the town, at a turning off the high road, and that the whole town was talking of it already


    45. This he did, and with his immense army marched into the adjoining territory, which he pillaged and burned, destroying more than half the enemy’s soldiers


    46. “It is very sound: one can’t permit the land to be pillaged and accustom the troops to marauding


    47. “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


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    Synonyms for "pillaged"

    despoiled pillaged raped ravaged sacked looted plundered ransacked

    "pillaged" definitions

    wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value


    having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence