39 collocations for loot

And when you feel dead sure that you've got track of the desprit villains who looted our town bank, all you have to do is to give the police the signal, and they'll throw a drag-net around the hang-out of the yeggs.

They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.

The Mexicans at the mines assassinated all the white men there when they were asleep, looted the place, and fled across the boundary to Mexico.

On the other hand, the self-restraint exercised, in many cases, against looting captured towns, indicates that progress has been made.

Is it because the moneygods have been unpropitiousbecause these robber barons have looted your railroad?"

Li Tz[)u]-ch'eng quickly looted the city, burned down whatever he could, and fled into the west, continually pursued by Wu San-kui.

Why, LeVere, they will make more apiece than by looting a half dozen ships, and with no fighting.

I fancy the Tartars under Batu Khan must have played many pranks in what is to-day Austrian Silesia, when looting the country after the battle of Liegnitz.

"Look along the road below and ahead, Frank," he said, "and you'll see something that makes you think of old times, when we hunted, in company with Chief Waller, for those men who looted Leffingwell's jewelry establishment.

The reports says the Greek Red Cross rendered invaluable aid in looting imprisoned Greeks hidden remotely.

" Not satisfied with this success, Bob went indoors and looted the hall of three walking-sticks and Margery's new sunshade.

During the Chinese revolution of 1912 in Peking and Nanking, looting leaders of mobs and plundering soldiers when captured were promptly decapitated without trial.

In those days the Santals spent their time in amusements and did not trouble about amassing wealth, but they were timid and were much oppressed by their Rajas who looted any man who showed signs of wealth.

They have received no pay and, although Aguinaldo speaks in his proclamation of his intention and ability to maintain order wherever his forces penetrate, yet the feeling is practically universal among the rank and file that they are to be compensated for their time and services and hardships by looting Manila.

One bad boy in a Sunday-school picnic can turn it into a rough-house outfit for looting orchards, and one little cuss in your office can demoralize your kids faster than you can fire them.

They promptly looted the parts of the city which they occupied, and ultimately retired from their positions within the city limits on the evening of their last day of grace after being warned by General Otis that if they did not do so they would be driven out.

At this very time they were looting the portions of the city which they occupied, and as is abundantly shown by their own records were not confining their attacks to Spaniards, but were assaulting their own people and raiding the property of foreigners as well.

" "And what will they say in Europe, when they hear the Provisional Government is looting private property?" "My dear colonel, you force me to much explanation.

" Salazar was looting the ranch of a friend of Obregon's near Fronteras.

Though he looted the rich, to the needy, the famine-stricken and widows he was always kind.

I'll find a story of how I was carried away by half a dozen men who had come to loot the upper rooms of the house, while the wedding party was downstairs.

*** Burglars who looted an Oxford Street shop last week obtained admission by making a hole through a brick wall.

The Soviet Commisar, with Red soldiers, visited the shop one day to loot the stock.

In the meantime, the soldiers, under cover of the musculus, were looting out with crowbars the lowest stones of the enemy's turret, with which the foundation was laid.

Ferocious men and women are seen looting the stores, drinking plundered liquors; the off-scouring of all nations are pillaging, burning, murdering; the spirit of hell seems in full control on this natal day of the Prince of Peace.

39 collocations for  loot