6 Metaphors for spoiling

His spoils are prodigiousnot to his own family!

"Go, then," said the old Bey, "surprise his boat, and slay him on his way up the river; his spoil shall be your reward."

That one was a rough deal kitchen table, and that another was of polished wood, with beautiful inlaid work and artistic curved and carven legs, the spoils of some drawing-room apparently, was a matter without the faintest interest to the signalers who used them.

In the first row those killed by the king himself were ranged; and he numbered forty-six roe-bucks, and one marcassin (young wild boar;) the spoil of the dauphin was thirty-eight roe-bucks, being eight less than his royal father, while the rest of the company destroyed among them fifty-four, making a grand total of 138 roes, and one wild boar.

The fellows felt supremely confident the spoils were already theirs, and that all that was needed now to assure complete success was sufficient time in which to drop safely out of sight.

The most valuable spoil of their Asiatic conquests was the Caliphate.

6 Metaphors for  spoiling