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1. “She has lived entirely on plunder, and the wages of prostitution”
2. as if the buggers ‘adn’t sampled the plunder
3. He found out that they were storing some of their plunder in the beloved ruins on our own little island of Faria
4. It was time to search the buildings for the plunder
5. How could she get away with playing the innocent as a respected art historian while being completely responsible for the trafficking of plunder on this scale
6. do not plunder his resting place
7. come to plunder? Have you gathered
8. plunder those who plundered them
9. plunder and mockery to the rest of
10. Nerissa was a Cretan pirate, intent on taking hostages and plunder
11. Not only no great convulsion, but no sensible disorder, arose from so great a change in the situation of more than 100,000 men, all accustomed to the use of arms, and many of them to rapine and plunder
12. His chief or sovereign (for those nations have all chiefs or sovereigns) is at no sort of expense in preparing him for the field ; and when he is in it, the chance of plunder is the only pay which he either expects or requires
13. It gives him a share, though not in the plunder, yet in the appointment of the plunderers of India; the court of directors, though they make that appointment, being necessarily more or less under the influence of the proprietors, who not only elect those directors, but sometimes over-rule the appointments of their servants in India
14. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it
15. We want good order, and I have told my people that they must not plunder anyone
16. 'But in any case, I have not come here tonight to plunder your beauty once more,' he continued
17. They rejoice at the ease with which they plunder
18. The poor you have not ceased to plunder
19. constituents, will invite the public agents to corruption, plunder and waste
20. Plunder and pillage are alive and well when it comes to asbestos litigation
21. 30 But from that day forward the troops of the King of Africa would go to Chittim to spoil and plunder it, and whenever they went, Zepho the captain of the host of Angeas would go with them
22. 23 And at the revolution of the year the troops of Africa continued coming to the land of Chittim to plunder as usual, and Zepho son of Eliphaz heard their report, and he gave orders concerning them and he fought with them, and they fled before him, and he delivered the land of Chittim from them
23. 25 And it came to pass in the ninety first year of the Israelites going down to Egypt, that is in the thirtieth year of the reign of Zepho the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, over the children of Chittim, the children of Africa came on the children of Chittim to plunder them as usual, but they had not come on them for these thirteen years
24. 10 At that time all the troops of Angeas King of Africa went out to spread along the land of Chittim as usual for plunder
25. Recruitment is motivated by enticements of wealth, and promises of power and slaves and plunder
26. 30 But from that day forward the troops of the King of Africa would go to Chittim to spoil and plunder it and whenever they went Zepho the captain of the host of Angeas would go with them
27. 23 And at the revolution of the year the troops of Africa continued coming to the land of Chittim to plunder as usual and Zepho son of Eliphaz heard their report and he gave orders concerning them and he fought with them and they fled before him and he delivered the land of Chittim from them
28. 25 And it came to pass in the ninety first year of the Israelites going down to Egypt that is in the thirtieth year of the reign of Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau over the children of Chittim the children of Africa came on the children of Chittim to plunder them as usual but they had not come on them for these thirteen years
29. 29 "Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man and plunder his goods unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house
30. 27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house
31. “Rather,” he said, “it is how I plunder those I intend to kill
32. celebrating over their plunder
33. also recovered all of the plunder of the Amalekites
34. There would be some fine celebrations again upon his return, when the war had started he had hoped that his army group would be assigned to assault the capital, the plunder and bounty would have been unimaginable with so much wealth to go around
35. The Romans, in the name of peace, will rob, slaughter, plunder, and enslave those left alive
36. More a plunder
37. They would fill their pockets with their plunder and eat some of them on the way home breaking the soft shells
38. He glanced at the long line of wagons and camp-followers, gathered the reins in his mailed hand, and spoke from habit the phrase of the marching mercenaries, "Hell or plunder, comrades—march!"
39. Like a true queen she lay, with her plunder heaped high about her: silks, cloth-of-gold, silver braid, casks of gems and golden coins, silver ingots, jeweled daggers and teocallis of gold wedges
40. But of the plunder of the accursed city, only the sullen waters of Zarkheba could tell where Conan had thrown it with a heathen curse
41. It would have given us desert folk a chance to plunder
42. In his palace in the great port city of Aghrapur was heaped the plunder of empires
43. "The plunder of the seas!" he laughed
44. He sees in Conan a red- handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land
45. It was shouted in the streets that Trocero had betrayed the king; that he planned to plunder the city
46. He decided that he would raid one of these smaller houses to see what he could plunder before he moved on from this boring shit hole of a job
47. The blacks urged Conan to turn and plunder it, but he shook his head
48. They anticipated a red career of pillage and plunder and were content
49. Gorm wore a corselet of silvered mail now, instead of the tiger-skin, but underneath he was unchanged – the everlasting barbarian, unmoved by theology or philosophy, his instincts fixed unerringly on rapine and plunder
50. They looted cities, devastated the country, and retired into the hills with their plunder, but the Picts occupied the land they had over-run
1. That was a time when humans plundered the land in non-sustainable ways
2. They taught themselves to read; and clandestinely plundered the Scather’s library for more knowledge
3. plunder those who plundered them
4. The Kassikan had plundered Dempala's ruins for centuries before a Karadarzin potentate would speculate on a voyage that far
5. 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
6. The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse
7. Instead of making profit upon such occasions, therefore, he is often in danger of being utterly ruined, and of having his magazines plundered and destroyed by their violence
8. But he continued waiting, the pressure increasing, his mind being forced to bring up images of the last few days, his work, his time with Raiya, it was laid out for them as if his mind were a flash drive to be plundered at will
9. The individuals, who hoard whatever money they can save, and who conceal their hoard, do so from a distrust of the justice of government ; from a fear, that if it was known that they had a hoard, and where that hoard was to be found, they would quickly be plundered
10. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it
11. They had then all systematically plundered the store rooms, securing the valuables, shaking the dust of Ashanti off their feet, returning to their own tribes with a recompense for their forced sojourn in the King's service
12. They figured that those who were gone would never return, leaving behind all their possessions, most of which they had already plundered
13. The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word
14. “Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them” (Judg
15. things, they delivered on that to the enemy the overthrown wall, and the plundered house, and the burnt temple, and the people who
16. “Zarras’s father bullied and stole and plundered until he held titles for all the Eastern Lands except the Ploughman’s little plot of ground
17. tumult in the city it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered
18. Wako—14th and 15th century Japanese pirates that plundered merchant shipping in the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and Sea of Japan
19. 4 But in the latter days of Methuselah, the sons of men turned from the Lord, they corrupted the Earth, they robbed and plundered each other, and they rebelled against God and they transgressed, and they corrupted their ways, and would not listen to the voice of Methuselah, but rebelled against him
20. 17 And every man made to himself a god, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the Earth, and the Earth was filled with violence
21. 6 And they plundered all the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and they also took Lot, Abram's brother's son, and his property, and they seized all the goods of the cities of Sodom, and they went away; and Unic, Abram's servant, who was in the battle, saw this, and told Abram all that the kings had done to the cities of Sodom, and that Lot was taken captive by them
22. Be hopeful; for previously you were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now you shall shine as the lights of Heaven you shall shine and you shall be seen and the portals of Heaven shall be opened to you; And in your cry cry for judgement and it shall appear to you; for all your tribulation shall be visited on the rulers and on all who helped those who plundered you
23. 4 But in the latter days of Methuselah the sons of men turned from the Lord they corrupted the Earth they robbed and plundered each other and they rebelled against God and they transgressed and they corrupted their ways and would not listen to the voice of Methuselah but rebelled against him
24. 17 And every man made to himself a god and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative and they corrupted the Earth and the Earth was filled with violence
25. 6 And they plundered all the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and they also took Lot Abram's brother's son and his property and they seized all the goods of the cities of Sodom and they went away; and Unic Abram's servant who was in the battle saw this and told Abram all that the kings had done to the cities of Sodom and that Lot was taken captive by them
26. My things from my first marriage, back when I was but a lad of two centuries, were plundered by… Well, they were plundered in a war, and none were ever recovered, but it was a substantial trove
27. Afterwards, they rejoiced and drank in the homes they had plundered and used the treasures they had stolen in whatever way they wished
28. 3 And when they had done these things they delivered on that to the enemy the overthrown wall and the plundered house and the burnt temple and the people who were overcome because they were delivered up lest the enemy should boast and say: 'So by force have we been able to lay waste even the house of the Most High in war
29. 41 For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered
30. She couldn’t help shivering at the knowledge the Chair Maker and his wife had plundered it
31. As Annyeke saw it he had plundered his mind and his traditions in pursuit of what should, by rights, be the gift only of the Gathandrian Spirit
32. "And they who believed from the ninth mountain which was deserted and had in it creeping things and wild beasts which destroy men were the following: they who had the stains as servants who discharged their duty ill and who plundered widows and orphans of their livelihood and gained possessions for themselves from the ministry which they had received
33. While Ernest was having breakfast, Nigel would scarper and wait in the park down the road, eating the food they had plundered the night before
34. they plundered as they went
35. No great length of time lay between her and the palaces of Kordava, but it was as if a world of change separated her from the life she had lived before Zaporavo tore her screaming from the flaming caravel his wolves had plundered
36. That night there came the brigands who broke into his house to kill him, and after they had plundered his barns, they burned that which remained
37. Beck smiled warmly at his closest allies then continued, “The Fuhrer made it clear as to how we should move forward, he has detailed friendly governments and officials, he has given us bank accounts and names of investors and he has told us where we can locate some of the art treasures that were plundered from occupied countries
38. Beck and his brethren were worth many millions of US Dollars, a lot of which had been plundered from wealthy German and Polish Jews
39. There were evidences of the march of a conquering army in broken hedges, plundered fields and looted granaries, but torch and steel had not been loosed wholesale
40. Valerius plundered and raped and looted and destroyed until even Amalric protested, warning him that he would beggar the kingdom beyond repair, not knowing that such was his fixed determination
41. The village looked like it had been plundered and ransacked, and not that long ago
42. Their logic was that humans, our ancestors, had plundered
43. they all drunk, can they all not see that they are being plundered
44. Antiochus, after repeated interferences with the temple and the priesthood, plundered Jerusalem, profaned the temple and enslaved a great number of the inhabitants
45. And even as they had to watch their land get plundered and their people impoverished, they were further insulted by being forced to honor deified emperors
46. But, eventually the plundered treasures were squandered, and the welfare of the rich and lazy
47. And when the Huns repeatedly plundered and torched parts
48. on the dead, and plundered the city, because they had
49. "No joke, you read a lot--you went through our bookshelves like a cookie monster goes through cookies! And you've certainly plundered that study of Midge's!"
50. Besides, Humfrid had a historical reputation of being what many would call a ‘robber baron’, a local lord who abused his powers and privileges and plundered the others around him by extracting undue taxes and tolls
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
1. Not simply the overpowering sound of pack dogs that makes the ear tingle when they’re on the hunt, but something meaner and more insistent, a baying that plunders the mind
2. Besides, in the modern warfare, of what avail is the famed Arabian horse, the swiftest breed on earth that served the Musalman marauders so admirably in their plunders of yore in the Islamic folklore? On the contrary, the heaps of shoes that Nasser’s soldiers rid themselves with so as to run faster to safety in the Sinai desert give an unerring account of the martial decay of the once dreaded Mohammedan Armageddon
3. A man of our time, whether he professes the divinity of Christ or not, cannot help but know that to take part, whether as a king, a minister, a governor, or a rural officer, in the sale of a poor family's last cow for taxes, with which to pay for cannon or the salaries and pensions of luxuriating, idle, and harmful officials; or to have a share in putting the provider of a family into prison, because we ourselves have corrupted him, and let his family go a-begging; or to take part in the plunders and murders of war; or to help substitute savage and idolatrous superstitions for Christ's law; or to detain a trespassing cow of a man who has no land of his own; or to deduct a sum from the wages of a factory hand for an article which he accidentally ruined; or to extort a double price from a poor fellow, only because he is in need,—a man of our time cannot help but know that all these things are disgraceful and execrable, and that they should not be done
4. Just as this robber and murderer could not deny what was evident to everyone, so it would seem that a man living upon the privations of the oppressed classes cannot persuade himself and others that he desires the welfare of those he plunders, and that he does not know how the advantages he enjoys are obtained
5. And she, in her turn, let loose her plunders upon our commerce