How To Use Pillaged In A Sentence
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Thus did they establish their factory in the port of Firando, where they have maintained themselves to this very day, taking the silks that they have pillaged from the Chinese, and certain cloth stuffs from Europa, and buying food and supplies for their forces in the Malucas and other islands of those regions.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing t
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We will not enter into space as employees of an astronautic administration or as “volunteers” of a state project, but as masters without slaves reviewing their domains: the entire universe pillaged for the workers councils.
Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
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The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.
The Abbot
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After a quick stop at the remnants of the cathedral in Fortrose, which suffered at the hands of Cromwell, who pillaged the red sandstone to build his fort in Inverness, we find ourselves in another realm of myths.
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Having succeeded so far the witness bent his attention to the office, when he found that a chest of drawers had been pillaged, and part of the contents packed up in a bundle that lay under the window looking into the street.
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In the Lansd. MS., British Museum, No. 70., there is a letter from Mr. Richard Champernowne to Sir Robert Cecil, dated in 1592, referring to the discovery of some articles pillaged from the Spanish carrack, which had then recently been captured and taken into Dartmouth harbour.
Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
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They told me likewise that the natives inhabited this barren spot of _Al Kossir_, as being the nearest harbour on the coast of the Red Sea to the Nile, whence provisions were transported; and that the inhabitants were satisfied with slight matts instead of roofs to their houses because not troubled with rain, and the matts were a sufficient protection from the sun: but made their walls of stone to defend themselves against the malignity and rapaciousness of the _Badwis_, a perverse people, void of all goodness, who often suddenly assaulted the place in hope of plunder, and frequently pillaged the caravans coming across from the Nile with provisions and other commodities.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war.
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It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing
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Leaked emails, seen by the Herald Sun, reveal several senior officers are worried they can't adequately police suburban beats because their staff are being "pillaged" for the
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Pretending now to repent of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
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Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered.
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They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes.
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His characters stay in a hotel annexed to the British Museum, so they're absorbed into its hoard of pillaged imperial trophies.
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He pillaged national costumes - ao-dais from Vietnam, for example - and re-interpreted them.
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The buildings were often pillaged in times of uncertainty - in some cases, totally demolished - and then rebuilt and restored over and over again.
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But you still hung, burnt at the pyre, slashed the throats, raped, murdered and pillaged the "savages" or those who would not adopt Christianity or your Victorian-era puritanism, which is responsible and has influenced much of the homophobia in many countries in Asia and Africa.
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Taxes in turn became tribute, or protection money, paid to a local warlord to prevent lands from being pillaged.
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The West has raped and pillaged much of the rest of the world in the name of progress and living in comfort, but that can't go on indefinitely.
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Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
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The Vikings raped and pillaged all along the coast.
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-- There, in Bas-Rhin, near Fort Louis, twenty houses of the aristocrats are pillaged.
The French Revolution - Volume 1
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In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants.
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European countries raped and pillaged the continent, destroying the social fabric and leaving a metaphorical smoking hole behind.
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There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
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The court also noted that Mr Reeves "pillaged" Waterloo for his own purposes, racking up hotel and restaurant bills on company credit cards.
National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
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Thieves in medieval Russia believed that if they carried a candle made of the fat of a murdered virgin when they pillaged churches, they wouldn't get caught.
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You hardly need reminding that it was Captain Helle's intrepid ancestors who took their longships across the Atlantic to the New World and who pillaged and dominated northern Europe for over three centuries.
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What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons?
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On our part La Hire and Xaintrailles plundered, for their own hand, the lands of the Duke of Burgundy, and indeed on every side there was no fair fighting, such as the Maid loved, but a war of wastry, the peasants pillaged, and the poor held to ransom.
A Monk of Fife
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And the new Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding A Memoir
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The banks, which provide credit and cash, have been looted, irrigation systems destroyed, road travel restricted, markets closed, warehouses and grain silos pillaged.
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If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The vessels of the Mangalore merchants came here to trade with the natives of this part of India for cargoes of spices, a fine kind of cloth called buckram and other valuable wares; but their vessels were frequently attacked, and too often pillaged by the pirates who infested these seas, and who were justly regarded as formidable enemies.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists.
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Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
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Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Notwithstanding this weak invention, Italy was still afflicted, Rome was again besieged, and the suburb of Classe, only three miles from Ravenna, was pillaged and occupied by the troops of a simple duke of Spoleto.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
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On entering the ruined city, and finding it pillaged, the Russians pillaging it too.
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She said: ‘They have raped and pillaged their own shores and now they have raped and pillaged ours.’
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Their ghastly killings still strike fear, dread and disgust in the communities they pillaged.
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They raided and pillaged, then headed back across the North Sea in their longships.
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She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly.
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He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks.
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Mercenaries had grown exponentially, and trade routes were risky, the merchant ships pillaged.
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He was accused then, as he often is now, of being excessive, even hysterical, in his account of the Revolution: a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices, … laws overturned, tribunals subverted, industry without vigor, commerce expiring … a church pillaged … civil and military anarchy … national bankruptcy.
Reflections on Burke
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At first they looted, burned and pillaged and then sailed off back to Denmark or Norway, heavily laden with gold and slaves.
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The towns of Rostov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and Bogolyubovo, more than 150 miles northeast of Moscow (at the time a remote provincial village), were pillaged by the invaders but spared the occupation.
Escape to Old Russia
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The Parisian detachments marching to Lyons left a trail of pillaged and closed churches, and smouldering bonfires of ornaments, vestments, and holy pictures all along their route.
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'_Mea culpa, mea culpa_,' he murmured wearily, then as he rose up with pale cheek a gleam of fire lit in his eye, for he would die rather than permit Saint Oswyn's shrine to be pillaged by the heathen.
Border Ghost Stories
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What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
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On such occasions, Vittore's accomplices were in waiting; and the unsuspecting stranger -- pillaged and alarmed, would return to the vettura penniless.
A Love Story
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Works of art were pillaged from many countries in the dark days of the Empire.
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Lombard Finance & Investments chief executive Michael Reeves "pillaged" a struggling firm to pay for a high-flying lifestyle ... .and some of his actions fell "well below those acceptable in business".
Whoar.co.nz
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Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied.
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The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money.
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Sweeping into Kievan Rus 'on small, swift horses, firing arrows of bone that pierced Russian armor, the hordes pillaged, massacred, and enslaved the Slavic population to such an extent that most Kievan principalities were knocked out of the history books for 200 years.
Russia Is Finished
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Most of the outlying towns and villages of the empire had already been pillaged and destroyed, mere husks of buildings remaining to mark where prosperous towns once were.
