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    1. As long as the whole, or the greater part of the gold which the first adventurers imported into Europe was got by so very easy a method as the plundering of the defenceless natives, it was not perhaps very difficult to ,pay even this heavy tax ; but when the natives were once fairly stript of all that they had, which, in St


    2. After plundering the captured vessels of all valuable ships’ property, the pirates would rob everyone on board, and if anyone was


    3. They were chasing each other from branch to branch, plundering every ship and scaring every other pirate crossing their path


    4. of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building & office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the State powers into the hands of the general government


    5. There was still a lot of excitement and pleasure among the patrons over the fate of the Tenocha, but there was already some grumbling that the Ordu had ended the plundering rather roughly


    6. My labour here seems like that of a guard-dog that sees robbers breaking into and plundering his master's house; but, because he has none to help him in defence, can only bark and complain


    7. ripeness of taut nipples that seemed to quiver beneath the plundering


    8. We had been serving as mercenaries for a rebel prince in eastern Koth, most of us, and when he made peace with his cursed sovereign, we were out of employment; so we took to plundering the outlying dominions of Koth, Zamora and Turan impartially


    9. I was a chief of the Zuagirs once—desert men who live by plundering the caravans


    10. And then we'll show the world what plundering means!"

    11. Tent-ropes were cut, fire sprang up in a hundred places, and the plundering had already begun


    12. Who gave them the mandate to regulate time travel? Did anyone actually give them such a mandate or are they nothing more than a band of mercenaries plundering history for their own profit and interests? What tells us that Miss Laplante will not simply disappear somewhere in time after giving us an empty promise or, even worse, modify history in order to eliminate a potential competitor to her Time Patrol? I say that the Time Patrol is a mortal threat to the Imperium and must be run down and destroyed, along with whoever supports it


    13. Plundering the Country and High-jacking Our


    14. ‘’Don’t rate too highly your father’s influence, mister: he may be fond of plundering the riches of Africa, or rather what is left of them, but he has no say here in the Outer System


    15. There will be no pillaging nor plundering of the city stores nor personal property


    16. 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


    17. It was a time before the Vikings had a name, a time when such plundering, murders and rapes were uncommon, especially among the peaceable Sami people


    18. The story of Africa is one of the Europeans plundering the natural re-


    19. The story of Africa is one of the Europeans plundering the natural resources of the continent and then, when caught with their hands in the cookie jar, hastily effecting a democratic handover to the most likely African kleptocrat’


    20. “Remember, no plundering there

    21. However, the very fact that Mahmud raided the temples of Mathura, Thanesar and Kannauj before plundering Somnath would leave one wondering whether it was not a Muslim rationalization of the gruesome killing of over ‘fifty thousand’ souls, possibly, including a thousand Brahman priests, in the temple of So-Manat? But, what is relevant is the reported hope of Mahmud that once the idol of Somnath was captured and destroyed, the Hindus would become Muhammadans, a la Meccans


    22. What with the lands that came under their reign having become unyielding, and lacking the old jihadi zeal to embark upon plundering the European kingdoms, in time, the Islamic world sunk into economic decay and dissipation


    23. Furthermore, poverty and deprivation, plundering, and theft increased


    24. Amin captured many of the criminals and put them into prison: for they were hardened villains who insisted on adhering to their love of crime, iniquity, plundering and robbery


    25. With such efficiency and by having full knowledge of all of the criminal elements in the quarter he was able to purge the area of all the crimes that were prevalent at the time: robbery, plundering, violence and other violations which might escalate into serious offences or even murder


    26. Plundering mortals with hutechnic inventions, the Z will vivisection iT for their pleasure – harvesting knowledge from technotainment experiment


    27. However, through his relentless efforts, Officer Mohammad Amin captured many of the criminals and put them into prison: for the most part they were hardened villains who insisted on adhering to their love of crime, iniquity, plundering and robbery


    28. In Matthew's gospel Jesus tells the Pharisees that He has bound the strong man (the devil) and is now plundering his goods (Matthew 12:28-29)


    29. The transition to the sport of window-breaking, and thence to the plundering of public-houses, was easy and natural


    30. Cathy had been caught in the act of plundering, or at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse

    31. While the others were busily occupied in seeking to gratify their childish passion for finery, by plundering even the miserable effects of the scout, or had been searching with such bloodthirsty vengeance in their looks for their absent owner, Le Renard had stood at a little distance from the prisoners, with a demeanor so quiet


    32. " Franz pondered the matter for a few moments, concluded that a man so rich could not have any intention of plundering him of what little he had, and seeing only the prospect of a good supper, accepted


    33. "The imp is not a Huron," he said, "nor of any of the Canada tribes; and yet you see, by his clothes, the knave has been plundering a white


    34. Sotillo's ideas did not soar above the care for his personal safety and the chance of plundering the town in his charge, but he feared that such a late adhesion would earn but scant gratitude from the victors


    35. ” Does he want a confession? A renunciation? Or more characteristically, a plundering of someone else’s language for his own ends? Would it be cheating to just read something aloud? This is a moot point; he’s hidden the Bible in his laundry pile in the attic, along with the camera he decided to take from Sol after all


    36. Then he sent plundering Orcs, and they carry off what they can, choosing always the black horses: few of these are now left


    37. “All it has brought is greed and poverty and plundering


    38. But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms


    39. The more the plundering by the French continued, the more both the wealth of Moscow and the strength of its plunderers was destroyed


    40. But plundering by the Russians, with which the reoccupation of the city began, had an opposite effect: the longer it continued and the

    41. Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse


    42. Then he picked up his basket, replaced the cartridges which had fallen from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box


    43. He flexed his wings to their greatest propulsion and plundering


    44. “If they haven’t joined in the plundering themselves,” Wil said


    45. Now he could have run away from Barbados and gone to plundering in the staunch Elizabeth, but there was no need


    46. Perhaps he will help me to buy a ship for my plundering


    47. A race of pirates not amenable to the gibbets of the crowns? Why, they would be plundering everybody


    48. Napoleon said emphatically—“See to it that there is no plundering! You will be answerable with your own head—save me my Moscow from everybody and everything!”


    49. As we have already said, when the plundering began, even the severest prohibitions scarcely availed to check the reign of lawlessness


    50. The calamities of this stage of the retreat were accentuated by the fact that no notice had been received of the return of the army, and officials at Smolensk and elsewhere, taken by surprise, completely lost their heads when they saw these crowds of ravenous fugitives storming and plundering their stores without much advantage to themselves, but to the ruin of all who came after them



















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