How To Use Plunder In A Sentence
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The rage and the disappointment of the admiral were beyond all bounds; what to him was the value of the capture of Aisa, of the Turkish alcaid, of the ten thousand of the baser sort; nay, what to him was the value of "Africa" itself when once again like a mocking spirit Dragut had glided beyond the sea horizon to devastate, to plunder, and to slay once more, the scourge and the menace of
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
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With those resources, there's no need to plunder the Arctic Wildlife Refuge or support repressive regimes like the Saudi monarchy.
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Most, however, returned home, brimming over with plunder.
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The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.
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The taxman is seeking the power to plunder the bank accounts of both individuals and companies to recover unpaid taxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conquerors advanced , killing and plundering as they went.
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I am convinced that what there is of good in that theory of reform of our evils is not advanced toward embodiment in our law by the character of the men who make the Chicago platform an excuse to get the public confidence and carry out schemes of public plunder, political corruption and miscellaneous incivism.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
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During the war communities in Unita-controlled areas had been subjected to violence, bush justice and plundering, an Institute of Security Studies (ISS) report says.
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So I was busy, -- but managed to dismast the _hantu_ prau and wrap it up in matting, so that it went aboard with the plunder.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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I am hoping that my hirsute body will prevent any bugs from plundering the sanctity of my inner ear.
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Of course, if you get rid of the State, not only would you gain friendlier tax brackets (zero sounds good), but "multinational" corporations would no longer be able to hide behind and gain from what Frederic Bastiat lucidly wrote about: legal plunder, aka the law.
Cancun Trade Talks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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For far too long they've plundered the pockets of the citizens of this country and treated us with utter disrespect.
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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This is with the view of saving lighterage and plunderage, and bringing the great mass of commerce so much nearer to the heart of the City.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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The scoundrels who made their living plundering, murdering those who got in their way, mercilessly defiling women… it was too much for her to bear.
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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There were too many temptations to plunder, and little to stop it.
SPICE: The History of a Temptation
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After all, no greedy hucksters could steal or plunder them.
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This administration has debauched our once independent civil service. It has also plundered our pension funds, condemning millions to meagre pickings in their retirement.
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These treasure hunters were coarse and greedy types whose only intention was plunder.
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Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
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The inn is actually a front for illegal operations involving the luring of ships onto the coastal rocks where the crews are murdered and the ships' cargoes can be plundered.
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity.
Rob Roy
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Before fleeing East Germany, he took care to excoriate himself from Stasi records and to plunder as many top secret files as he could.
CHAMELEON
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The problem was that nobody got close to him at any time as the Brazilian plundered a hat-trick over two legs.
The Sun
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The currency was hopelessly debased, the government corrupt, the armies more interested in plundering the provinces than protecting them; many people believed the dissolution of the empire was at hand.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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But while she was talking to fans inside, the robber was busy plundering her unlocked car in nearby Barker's Pool car park.
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the sub shrugged off his problems to plunder a crucial winner.
The Sun
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They plunder the natural resources, particularly oil, in order to compel their allies to submit to their diktat and to a collective imperialism operating to the exclusive benefit of the trans-national corporations.
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By the time the scattered troops were mustered, the enemy was already returning home and had to be ambushed in passing while laden with plunder.
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It confirmed Foreign Secretary Russell's fears that ‘acts of plunder, of incendiarism, and of revenge’ would ravage the American continent.
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It is now common knowledge that thousands of crores worth of sandalwood is being plundered from our forests every year.
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In 1204, the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople and huge amounts of artistic treasures were taken to the West in the form of plunder, to fill cathedral treasuries and decorate cities across western Europe.
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After the island came a long beach stroll; oystercatchers plundered the mussel beds and crows feasted on small crabs.
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As we said elsewhere, this readiness to accept and embrace corruption and plunder of the public purse goes deep.
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It would seem that tips on playing competitive bridge, overweening pride, and short-term plundering were the leadership messages passed on through succession and down the ranks at Lehman.
John O'Neil: President Obama's Future Leadership of Capitalism 3.0
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His best form has come in boggy ground and he just lacks the class to plunder this pot.
The Sun
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The best television generally plunders from books and plays and the arts that existed before.
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Even fighting for the glory of the Overlord starts to pale when it's costing you money and there's no plunder in sight.
TREASON KEEP
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What TV needs now, in these uncertain times, is dramatic characters like those of Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick ( "Once and Again," "thirtysomething") or on "Brothers and Sisters" — characters who aren't trying to save the world or plunder it, but are just trying to subsist in it.
Too Much Of a Bad Thing
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The former president will also be tried in a multi-million dollar case of plunder, a crime punishable by life imprisonment or death.
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However monkey, chimpanzee and many other rare and endangered species are plundered from the forest and killed for food.
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There would have been a certain sporting symmetry if he had plundered more goals last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three weeks of rapine, slaughter and plunder were sufficient to anger the king and the emperor, who entered into negotiations with each other.
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Ultimately, when we talk about government, we are talking about a bunch of ignorant bullies, looters, and plunderers.
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Plundering and raiding, pirating and smuggling were the only ways they could survive in this universe…
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The expedition acquired the character of a vast plundering raid.
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It's a one-book explanation for the current move to the left in a growing number of Latin American countries, tracing a centuries-long history of rapine and plunder, of genocide and dictatorship, first at the hands of Spain, and more recently under the baleful influence of the US, which operated directly or by proxy to ensure that nothing would ever change.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Hence the relative attraction of a centrally-planned, lowest common denominator mediocracy with just enough capitalism to be plundered and wasted on their ever failing social engineering schemes and flawed political theories.
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In the past, veggies in shorefront gardens have been plundered by raiding parties from visiting yachts.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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On occasion woodchats have been known to plunder the nests of other birds.
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The difference between pirates and privateers was that the pirates were simply sea robbers who captured or looted ships at sea for plunder, without authority.
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You turned to piracy, you steal, you plunder, you lie, you cheat… you kill.
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At Kiukiang, where the vessel stopped, the lowdah and his men went ashore after receiving the gold dust and sycee shoes as their share of the plunder, while Wang, taking the junk and cargo as his portion, shipped a fresh crew and sailed on to Hankow, where he set up in business with the proceeds of his ill-gotten gains.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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They amassed huge wealth by plundering the colonies.
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
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In 1585 he travelled to the West Indies and the coast of Florida where he sacked and plundered Spanish cities.
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both stand accused of plunder, an offense punishable by death.
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However, lawlessness remained a problem, with bandits known as mosstroopers, very often former Royalist or Covenanter soldiers, plundering both the English troops and the civilian population.
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When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire, the early Christian teachings on land were overtaken by the Roman land laws of "dominium" - a legalization of property in land originally obtained by conquest and plunder.
P2P Foundation
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There was no order among us — he that was captain today, was swabber tomorrow; and as for plunder — they say old Avery, and one or two close hunks, made money; but in my time, all went as it came; and reason good, for if a fellow had saved five dollars, his throat would have been cut in his hammock.
Redgauntlet
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He shows how desertions, profiteering, hoarding, and plunder were widespread.
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both stand accused of plunder, an offense punishable by death.
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But this project went unrealized, and after Caesar's assassination he was proscribed by Mark Antony: his library at Casinum was plundered, but he escaped to live the rest of his life in scholarly retirement.
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people returned to the plundered village
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Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies.
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He can plunder more Scottish booty today.
The Sun
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Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is part of life.
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He will plunder the treasure Of every desirable vessel.
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We suggested to set the houses on fire to get them out but he was afraid to lose plunder.
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Before fleeing East Germany, he took care to excoriate himself from Stasi records and to plunder as many top secret files as he could.
CHAMELEON
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Both the chapel and the crypt were found in a state of devastation hardly credible, as though the plunderers had taken pleasure in satisfying their vandalic instincts to the utmost.
Pagan and Christian Rome
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Earth is overpopulated, and in an effort to provide for everyone we are plundering our natural resources.
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At my time of life, food and clothing be all that is needed; and I have little occasion for what you call plunder, unless it may be, now and then, to barter for a horn of powder, or a bar of lead.
The Prairie
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As the consciousness grows that we must develop a sustainable economic system to survive, beginning at the local level, as sustainability must, the idea of plundering the globe to loot recources begins to look self-defeating, even stupid.
Going Local
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To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery.
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My other debts are to the authors of books from which I have freely plundered their best (I hope) ideas.
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The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts.
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After the president fled the country, the palace was plundered by soldiers.
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The privateer captains could not have guessed that the most precious plunder of all was perched on their shoulder.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Ganapathy, the general secretary, the supreme leader of the Maoists made it clear recently that his war against the government would only intensify if it doesn't stop what he calls the facilitation of the plunder of Chhattisgarh.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The Cure Hill side relentlessly plundered the runs, aided by some very ragged fielding.
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The Eastern and Western Atlantic stocks of bluefin tuna have been so severely plundered that they were proposed for listing as an endangered species in 2009 - a designation strongly opposed by Japan, which consumes around 80 percent of the bluefin caught in the world.
Corbin Hiar: Why Did One Japanese Blufin Tuna Sell for $736,000
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Not less reminiscent of many bygone ages are the ornamentation and decorative details; and in the rooms, statuary plundered from the Greek islands or brought by the
Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands
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Italy; yet by their gray eyes and the largeness of their stature, they were conjectured to be some of the German races dwelling by the northern sea; besides that, the Germans call plunderers
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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'Tis a capital crime, and is to be prosecuted as a species of devilism that would not only deprive God and Christ of all his honor, but also plunder man of all his comfort.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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In his own words, his corporation was a 'plunderer'.
Marc Stoiber: Tapping the innovation 'black space': a forward-looking opportunity for liability insurers
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The future of our planet is in danger if we continue to plunder it as we do.
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Sea battles and voyages and plunder and buried treasure and king's pardons and kidnapped wenches.
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This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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Moreover, when they had lost their charters, those po - etical birds called harpies became really existent, and visited these flocks, not so much that tliey might build nests of their own, as plunder and pull down the nests of others.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
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First, they say they are frustrated by the limited benefits that their countries gain under the current ABS frameworks, complaining that the rich world is engaging in "biopiracy" - plundering their resources without sharing any of the loot.
ICTSD
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It would be even more disturbing should it emerge that the approach is an opportunistic one, seeking merely to plunder industry without regard to the wider implications.
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The taxman is seeking the power to plunder the bank accounts of both individuals and companies to recover unpaid taxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Bible was plundered for yet more laughs in films like Evan Almighty, The God Complex, Year One and perhaps most rumbustiously of all, The Real Old Testament.
Film | guardian.co.uk
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A penalty point in his favour ended his bad spell and he plundered seven points in a row.
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During the Victorian period, successive imperialist wars of plunder were eulogised by the military and political elite as a worthy social challenge and likened to a game played between great powers.
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Free radicals careen through your bloodstream and indiscriminately plunder unpaired electrons from unsuspecting molecules.
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They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster.
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We've always been incredibly good at this sort of imperialistic thing of bringing back the spoils of our plunders overseas and putting a unique twist on them, and a little bit of dry British humor.
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Members of the 19 families whose dead relatives' estates were plundered by a disgraced solicitor have greeted his imprisonment with quiet satisfaction.
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The conquerors advanced,killing and plundering wherever they went.
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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It is essentially a cover to force countries to open up their markets for multinational corporations to plunder.
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However, kind words, kind looks, and the present of that inestimable treasure -- a knife, brought him to reason; and he told Amyas that he belonged to a Spaniard who had an "encomienda" of Indians some fifteen miles to the south-west; that he had fled from his master, and lived by hunting for some months past; and having seen the ship where she lay moored, and boarded her in hope of plunder, had been surprised therein by the Spaniards, and forced by threats to go with them as a guide in their search for the English.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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It was really all about plunder but was sanctified by grandiose monarchic claims.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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Every voice in the town declared confidently that the jongleur was the guilty man, and had successfully hidden his plunder before he was sighted and pursued.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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This is what Calgacus had to say about that (85 A. D): “To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Propaganda 101
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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Say, wotcher mean drillin 'round dis town in some kinder funny riggin' wit'out no plunder on you?
The Life of the Party
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He was plundered by George Rogers Clark in 1782 and had to flee for his life, perhaps losing nearly everything.
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Its leader, an old grotesque-looking fellow, dressed in a priest's vestments -- doubtless a part of the plunder of the night -- and seated on a barrel on wheels, like a Silenus, from which, at their several halts, he harangued his followers, and drank to the 'downfal of the Bourbons,' soon let me into the history of the last twelve hours.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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Beyond the diaspora, it has also found fans among directors and impresarios like Baz Luhrmann and Andrew Lloyd Weber, who have plundered signature elements to revitalise their own work.
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Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.
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Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly.
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The castles were built by the dukes, and barons, and other feudal chieftains of the middle ages, and they are placed in these commanding positions in order that the chieftains who lived in them might watch the river, and the roads leading along the banks of it, and come down with a troop of their followers to exact what they called tribute, but what those who had to pay it called plunder, from the merchants or travellers whom they saw from the windows of their watchtowers, passing up and down.
Rollo on the Rhine
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This includes not just creditors but, above all, the little man who is forced to keep his meager savings in the form of cash, i.e., paper money open to plunder by the prodigal which is the consortium of the banks and the government.
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He is being investigated for allegations including perjury and plunder.
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Others say that his cargo business thrived during anarchic wars of plunder that have, thankfully, subsided.
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The plot may have been plundered on countless occasions by playwrights, film-makers and novelists, but nevertheless its emotional impact still packs a powerful punch.
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Our politicians have plundered the system for so long, corruption is so much part of life.
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“I was plundered of every stiver when they took me — it shall avail thee much.”
Quentin Durward
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( 'plunderers'), the government ( 'totalitarian') or individual politicians ( 'liars').
Hot Air » Top Picks
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A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
A Christmas Carol
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Poorer countries are simply a resource for big business-cheap labour, cheap dumping grounds, cheap plunder.
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There were several parallels between the two innings, the most notable being that both sides had Australian openers who plundered centuries and the first three batsmen in both teams were left-handers.
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No garage sale was left unplundered as they grifted their way across the country each summer, while we kids stayed down in the Pine Barrens with Grandad.
White Cat
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More than 40 countries are currently searching their national collections for plundered treasures.
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His artistic legacy was immense and it is hard to appreciate his originality because his inventions have been plundered by generations of artists.
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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In March, that brief summary of a bear, the raccoon, comes out of his den in the ledges, and leaves his sharp digitigrade track upon the snow, -- travelling not unfrequently in pairs, -- a lean, hungry couple, bent on pillage and plunder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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The job of legate comes with all sorts of rights to subinfeudation and plunder of the treasury.
Shadow Games
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The thieves hid their plunder in the cave.
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Competition between elites is too easily turned into collusion between plunderers.
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Super powers plundered all kinds of commodities at low prices from a satellite country.
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Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
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This reinforcement recalled the plunderers to their duty, and the Tatars were driven back to the Khan's palace, whence, after an hour's defence, they were forced to retreat.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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After stealing their hearts, she allegedly plundered their bank accounts.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the Lord did not choose that the champan should be lost; for the Camucones did not break it up, as is their wont, but abandoned it after having plundered its articles of value -- which were considerable, and which caused great loss to the province.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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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Plunder and rapine were a way of life and no man trusted his brother.
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A silly thing to say given that the champions have plundered 88 goals in 37 league matches this term?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a popular novel must be plundered for source material for other media.
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his plundering of the great authors
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He then plundered further goals after 28 and 35 minutes against a hapless home defence.
The Sun
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_culvertage_, [82] (a name of all things dreaded by both nations,) to attend in this expedition; and such force had this threat, and the hope of plunder in England, that a very great army was in a short time assembled.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
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Atrocity stories filtered through, of the Mamelukes bursting into the citadel; of the destruction, the rampage; the plundering.
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But it was for his successful plundering of Spanish merchant ships that he was knighted.
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Sturdy and well-finished, these ships were able to sail great distances, not just for pillage and plunder but also to seek new territories, markets and economic gains for the homeland.
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They talked as they ate, discussing the journey and their comrades who were currently plundering another village a few miles away.
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Scotland. 28 He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy.
Waverley
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Since her disappearance, her bank accounts have been plundered, with illegal transactions worth thousands of pounds made in her name.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, an army of warriors and men dressed in black cowls came from the direction of Plunder castle and sacked the town.
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The thieves marched almost in step, pleased with their plunder, unhurried, as if in a pageant.
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Catalan plundered the first try after 50 seconds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps if they had not been plundering the nation 's coffers and avoiding tax then more money would have been available for the war.
The Sun
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The thieves are often armed and in some cases have killed for their plunder.
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FOR the Romans, plundering art was the sacred right of a conquering army.
Times, Sunday Times
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Openly riding their horses in gangs of several dozen, at night they set fires, brandish [their] weapons, and plunder residents' goods.
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When plunderers raided a merchant vessel at anchorage off Visakhapatnam in broad daylight, an armed boarding party of the Coast Guard swiftly responded to a distress signal and nabbed the fleeing pirates after a hot chase.
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It will also mean Greek banks can replenish reserves that have been plundered in recent weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plundering of body parts of radiation victims reached ghoulish proportions.
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Residents in the villages under attack have been unable to protect their homes from plunder.
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Super powers plundered all kinds of commodities at low prices from a satellite country.
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Reply to this kimberley ondo it is sad that this man has died and left his country with a legacy of poverty and misery that could have been aleviated by the wealth that he plundered from the earth, assisted by the French, who at best, thier only redeeming quality, is thier ability to organise wholesale theft from Gabon and to find places for President bongo to stash his stolen riches and aid and abet him in the misery of the people of Gabon.
Global Voices in English » Gabon: On President Omar Bongo’s death
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The islands and sheltered bays provided ideal hiding places for the pirate galleys that plundered passing ships.
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Jocko told of the buccaneer's career from his first act of rapine and plunder to that island that saw his chests of stuffs and treasures ripped open and scattered on the sands.
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That says much on a day when Ireland plundered four of the six races.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead.
World’s Great Men of Color
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The privateer captains could not have guessed that the most precious plunder of all was perched on their shoulder.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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They would smouch provisions from the pantry whenever they got a chance; or a brass thimble, or a cake of wax, or an emery bag, or a paper of needles, or a silver spoon, or a dollar bill, or small articles of clothing, or any other property of light value; and so far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in their pockets.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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The conquerors advanced , killing and plundering as they went.
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Enterprising traders sailed its coast for centuries, and colonizers plundered its wealth, both material and human.
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FOR the Romans, plundering art was the sacred right of a conquering army.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shasu, "plunderers," their king or chief Hyk, and hence the name of those invaders who conquered the native kings and established
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Meantime the Crusaders plundered the city of every scrap of wealth.
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Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
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The man said he went into a village Chinese troops had retreated from and plundered goods and money.
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Under those circumstances, the pirates, who have now learned how to operate far out to sea using mother ships such as seagoing trawlers carrying speedboats for attacks, look set for a lot more plunder.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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Nobody absconds with and remarkets another artist's plundering of yet another artist's unoriginal work quite like Flo Rida," remarked one admiring industry insider.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It
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As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans.
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The Carthaginian army, though strong in horsemen and in elephants, kept upon the hills and did nothing to save the country, and the wild desert tribes of Numidians came rushing in to plunder what the Romans had left.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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It will also mean Greek banks can replenish reserves that have been plundered in recent weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ‘shopaholic’ headmistress collapsed after being found guilty of living the high life with up to £500,000 plundered from her school.
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In the 1980s, the CEO was a rapacious plunderer, vilified for laying off honest folk just to acquire a more lavish jet.
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Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives.
Slashfood
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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Believing there was no army in the field to oppose him, he grew careless and let large foraging parties plunder the region.
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Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been plundered from her account since she vanished.
The Sun
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Networks of plunder: Archaeologists tracing the labyrinth of antiquities trafficking hope to shut it down, or at least slow it up Pollen tubes gravitate toward LURE1 protein (left, fluorescent green) expressed by synergid cells around Satohiro Okuda (left) and Tetsuya Higashiyama
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