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1. And it will be subject to pillage
2. These outlets have given the impression that the Crusades were unwarranted invasions by aggressive mercenary armies, whose only aim was the looting and pillage of the traditional lands of others
3. Plunder and pillage are alive and well when it comes to asbestos litigation
4. They limited themselves to visiting Fort Charlotte, built by Lord Dunmore in 1789, in the midst of the Napoleonic era, to defend the western entrance to the Port of Nassau against pillage
5. “Our orders, my captain, were to pillage, burn and destroy all concentrations of Hebrews on the way to rejoining the main army under Commander Myserrah
6. “Our orders, my captain, were to pillage, burn and destroy all concentrations of Hebrews on
7. During the day I’d leave my rucksack in a shop or police station with no fear of pillage
8. When things failed to improve, wealthy countries sent their airplanes to bomb, invade, slaughter and pillage the food from poorer countries, so they could live a few years longer
9. The life was uncertain, dream-like, with sharp contrasts of battle, pillage, murder, and flight
10. In swift-moving scenes the pageant of his life passed fleetingly before his mental eye—a panorama wherein moved shadowy figures which were himself, in many guises and conditions—a skin-clad barbarian; a mercenary swordsman in horned helmet and scale-mail corselet; a corsair in a dragon-prowed galley that trailed a crimson wake of blood and pillage along southern coasts; a captain of hosts in burnished steel, on a rearing black charger; a king on a golden throne with the lion banner flowing above, and throngs of gay-hued courtiers and ladies on their knees
11. They anticipated a red career of pillage and plunder and were content
12. before I pillage that sweet little pussy of yours, wouldn’t it?"
13. As news spread of Zo'Nuuktu’s amazing technology, it sparked the curiosity of the ruler of Akirmon of that time, King Zo’Zaphix, who was also launching armies across Prubu and Jonui to pillage small nations
14. ceeded to rape and pillage the lands of the conquered king, Amalek
15. to pillage and reap their earnings, but while pillaging they were later ambushed by the unbelievers
16. for my men to commence the pillage of Hambel in small raids
17. to pillage and burn the Chinese settlements
18. They exacted a fearful toll of rape, arson, pillage, and wanton murder
19. “It is rape, kill, pillage and burn, in that order
20. are thieves and who pillage public funds to the detriment of the poor,
21. On the contrary, with the sword of Allah in one hand and Muhammad’s Quran in the other, the Caliphs of Islam set out to pillage the world with an army of zealots who had their eyes on plunder or Paradise, and / or both
22. The conquering army is allowed three days of unrestricted pillage; and the former places of worship, with every other building, become the property of the conquering leader, he may dispose of them as he pleases
23. Sultan Mehmet (after the fall of Constantinople in 1453) allowed his soldiers the three days of pillage to which they were entitled
24. In 639, thousands died as a result of the famine and the plague as a consequence to the destruction and pillage
25. The Arabs had always been a race of warriors who lived by pillage and the exploitation of settled populations
26. In 1834 a cycle of violence and pillage began in Safed
27. What it took tens of millennia to restore after earth’s last great cataclysm man has managed by diligent single-minded purpose and self-blinding greed, to pillage, pollute and condemn to death in the merest fraction of that time
28. Mass child-murders; ecological pillage and plunder of all sorts; genocide in several colors on behalf of several versions of Lord, God Almighty; individual rape, torture and killing incidents; plus wars of all sizes leaving countless victims of all sizes—all of it left her wishing for more earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions and holes in the ozone layer
29. Kids can’t wait wrapped gifts to pillage
30. I sensed that they had no mortification whatever at having attempted to pillage the hard-earned income of a boy, but instead they believed that there would never be another offer to purchase The Rocks in their lifetimes
31. However, there are entities that want to pillage that inward divinity to gain dominion of our behaviors, emotions, and thoughts
32. The parents pillage that joy further by demanding to know why they are avoiding family members and staying in their room
33. Can you envision an environment where there is no joy in a self-expression, but others pillage that happiness in communication? There would only be sadness, depression, and anger within our words and deeds
34. starving humans had resorted to war, pillage, and
35. If the Romans had fought their invaders and died bravely in battle, they would have been vanquished only once, and either been oppressed or shaken off their oppressors to be left alone to live their lives: unhumiliated and uncorrupted by literally centuries on invasions and rape and pillage
36. Their empire was so huge that the new barbarians, no matter how much they pillaged, could never pillage all of it
37. That is why Europeans managed to colonize, rape, pillage and oppress the rest of the world’s existing cultures… because they did not consider any new, strange, barbaric cultures as even being human
38. They hungered to destroy, pillage, and wreck human lives
39. 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
40. "Thus did he pillage me and my family, thus frustrate all my plans of
41. guard to take with him forty men, to pillage Noureddin's house, to rase it to the
42. "Are you going to pillage the house on account of my nephew?"
43. PIRATE FUN FACT: Choosing the right ship and the right cargo to pillage, was an essential part of any pirate ship captain's duty, wishing to avoid mutiny
44. 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
45. 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, through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters
46. ‘The Emperor is extremely displeased that despite the strict orders to stop pillage, parties of marauding Guards are continually seen returning to the Kremlin
47. Among the Old Guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening, last night, and today
48. Since the battle of Borodino and the pillage of
49. At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking the prisoners in a stable, had gone off to pillage under the wall and ran away, but were recaptured by the French and shot
50. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness
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
1. “You do not approve? Wouldn’t look good on your story?” he said and then made a motion in the air with his free hand, stopping at the mention of each word like showing off a neon headline sign: “Former Nigerian Army Major Pillages Monastery
1. I wondered how many people had blundered into these very stones, perhaps fleeing in the dark from pillaging, murderous pirates
2. arrived to see a group of youths pillaging their church, and
3. She and Tom left Brian to his pillaging
4. And now they were traveling out of London, raping and pillaging as they went, feeding off the general population like the Vikings of old
5. Naybor had stopped the men rampaging through the village, pillaging and destroying
6. The next morning I was up early and continued the pillaging of The Sea Serpent
7. They had begun to scour the lands pillaging, raping, and burning, before they dug their teeth in what they thought would be the grand feast of Pyr itself
8. Was it also pillaging when Moses carted the bones of joseph through the desert for more than 40 years?
9. Was it also pillaging when Josiah dug up the bones and burnt it by order of God?
10. 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
11. The highest grade of pillaging is to take the bones of the deceased and throw it into a monster industrial blender with hardened steel balls which crushes and grinds it to a powder! This my friend is pillaging of the highest degree of a body that does not even belong to you
12. My jagun was sent to the western part of Tlatelolco where we surprised small groups of pillaging Tenocha and put them to the sword
13. They had obviously become used to pillaging,
14. deceit and pillaging of every type, such as in the land of the Cicones where he
15. This does not mean that Inner Circle Initiate goes through life murdering, raping and pillaging in flagrant disregard for the law (you’ll be relieved to hear)
16. The underlying assumption is that unless ‘something is done’, then the world will be full of crazed and violent drug addicts raping and pillaging their way through society
17. They’ve been pillaging Pan’s kingdom ever since
18. From the walls men saw the flame of their pillaging
19. Conan felt the old tug of the professional fighting-man, to turn his horse and plunge into the fighting, the pillaging and the looting as in the days of old
20. In gusts of blood-lust he festooned the gallows in the market square with dangling corpses, glutted the axes of the headsmen and sent his Nemedian horsemen thundering through the land pillaging and burning
21. When the co-pilot had completed the reburial of the pilot, understandably, he seemed to be very reticent to assist Siri in his pillaging of the cargo for which he was responsible; however, he seemed keen enough to collect and repack the carelessly discarded items from the desert back into the hold
22. to pillage and reap their earnings, but while pillaging they were later ambushed by the unbelievers
23. focused on the mission at hand and not solely on pillaging riches, the
24. There will be no pillaging nor plundering of the city stores nor personal property
25. The untold story, however, has the inquisitors of the Christian faith raping, burning, pillaging and plundering the farmers and merchants of not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark, but wherever they went, in behalf of the god of this world, and doing it in the name of Jesus
26. Other parties need to decide how to handle this Presidential pillaging, of which there is documentary evidence, and which will undoubtedly be of the greatest possible embarrassment to the ruling party when made public
27. Crimes such as the bombing of playgrounds, the murder of Melioran sympathizers, the pillaging of western cities in advance of Melioran troops, the suspension of elections and the suspicious claim to power
28. “What say you we do a bit o’ burning and pillaging together?”
29. Last week, they raided the Johansen homestead, pillaging and burning the farm to the ground
30. 1000, the head of a Turco-Afghan dynasty, Mahmud of Ghazni, first passed through India like a whirlwind, destroying, pillaging, and massacring
31. If we had a warrior culture, if we raised our children to be spartans or beserkers, then warring would be the skill we would want to inculcate, and pillaging and raping would be the rewards for a campaign won
32. world that cannot recover from the pillaging that has been
33. The Pillaging Of Joy
34. The pillaging of the fruit of joy can happen through circumstances of our health
35. The pillaging of joy can happen through circumstances involving our security
36. The pillaging of our joy can happen through our desire to belong with others
37. In contrast, many people experience the pillaging of that joy causing them to feel unwanted and isolated
38. The pillaging of joy makes the possibility of “fitting in” seems impossible
39. The pillaging of joy happens to our sense of self-worth, which causes self-destruction and violence to others
40. The pillaging of joy can happen through circumstances of our self-expression
41. The pillaging of the joy within our words and deeds results in oppressed and negative expression of ourselves
42. Even after Luther’s reforms became normalized: religious hatred, bigotry, and racism, bloodshed, war, pillaging, raiding, etc, continued nonstop all over Europe
43. from Ithilien and from Anurien, ambushing and pillaging
44. She represented the big bad state that’s sanctioning the criminal pillaging of the world
45. During the month that the French troops were pillaging in Moscow and the Russian troops were quietly encamped strength of the two armies- both in spirit and in number- as a result of which the superiority had passed to the Russian side
46. 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
47. 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 simultaneously on the centre of the uprising, the first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, the third from the Greve, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was serious
48. The name is derived from the fact that this concoction was popularly supposed to have rendered immune from contagion certain thieves who were pillaging the city of Toulouse during a severe plague (1720)
49. The less bold among them contented themselves with pillaging houses in which they were quartered
50. Although officially forbidden, pillaging continued
