This was not, however, granted save in a few cases: of the rest all the possessions without exception were ruthlessly plundered.

Before and after this time, the Danes repeatedly plundered the land.

But all ryots are not alike, and when the putwarrie gets hold of some unwary and ignorant bumpkin whom he can plunder, he does plunder him systematically.

The more lawless in each army plundered both sides impartially, and when the king's body was found next day, it too was stripped like many others around it.

They assailed the countryside without warning and plundered every quarter indiscriminately.

Protesting their kind regard for those whom they hourly plunder of all they have and all they get!

It was his benevolent thoughtfulness which had supplied drinking troughs for the flocks of pigeons that continually plundered the stores of the other grain merchants.

In addition to the ordinary burdens were enormous monopolies, granted to nobles and courtiers, by which the income of the State was indirectly plundered.

Two years later they plundered Clondalkin, nine miles inland from the Dublin coast, where the Round Tower still marks the site of the old church and school.

If a stranger happen to be present they invariably plunder him, but if that pleasure be denied them, they never separate without quarreling among themselves.

Chiefs committed excesses and wholesale plunder upon us, While those lower plundered and rioted down to the lowest: Every one seemed but to care that something be left for the morrow.

I see no bright spot anywhere, not even in Italy, which was at this time the most overrun and the most mercilessly plundered of all the provinces of the fallen Empire.

It so happened that some Roman and Alban peasants mutually plundered each other's lands.

Like his cousin of the Scotch Highlands, the Irish tribesman's life was one perpetual carnival of fighting, burning, raiding, plundering, and he who plundered oftenest was the finest hero.

Under the law of muru a man smitten by sudden calamity was politely plundered of all his possessions.

Besides this, the woods and hills of every part of his dominions were in a great degree possessed by formidable bands of robbers, who, recruited and protected by the villages, and commanded by chiefs as brave and as enterprising as himself, laid extensive tracts under contribution, burning and plundering regardless of his jurisdiction.

The Crown woods had been, of course, sadly plundered by squatters, and by others who should have known better.

As the area of competition broadened, so the guilds weakened, until, under Edward VI, being no longer able to defend themselves, they were ruthlessly and savagely plundered; and fifty years later the Court of King's Bench gravely held that a royal grant of a monopoly had always been bad at common law.

Yet did Judas exhort his soldiers not to be too desirous of the spoils, for that still they must have a contest and battle with Gorgias and the forces that were with him, but that when they had once overcome them then they might securely plunder the camp because they were the only enemies remaining, and they expected no others.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, And sucked all o'er like an industrious bug.

Agreeable to this supposition, they surrounded us with ten or twelve large boats, with a resolution, undoubtedly to plunder the ship, and to carry away those they found alive for slaves to their king.

He did not consider it prudent to seize upon the republic at once, as, in that event, he was bound to partition it among his kinsmen, by whose aid, extended upon special promises, he had overthrown it; so he contented himself with a rich ransom, having already beggared it by suffering lawless followers to plunder it uninterruptedly before he interfered, and by demanding an act of submission.

Move off quickly, or else they will immediately fall on the caravan, and utterly plunder us all.'

The world, as you say, is 'the world'a quarrelling, vicious, fighting, plundering worldyet it is a very good world for good men.

"Yes," was the reply, "but it is all ours now;" and the naked Frenchmen, whose calamities had found pity from the Moors of the desert, were now deliberately plundered by their own countrymen.