They set me out a lunch and treated me rather kindly, so that I really began to sympathize with them; for I knew that the soldiers would ransack their house and confiscate everything they could lay their hands on.

They were ransacking the rooms below by the aid of their own lanterns, as I could tell from their assured manner.

Captain Mackintosh, too, had taken his bearings, and probably while I sat at dinner on board the Lola my keys had been stolen and passed on to the scarred Scotsman, who had promptly gone ashore and ransacked the place while I had remained with his master smoking and unsuspicious.

Phinuit cocked his head intelligently to one side, ransacked his memory, and looked brightly to Lanyard.

How he mustered his clan, and plunged over the desert in hot pursuit, seven days, by forced marches; how he ransacked a whole caravan, sifting the contents of every tent, little heeding such small matters as domestic privacy, or female seclusion, for lo!

He ransacked his brain for some other course.

They ransacked the earth and the seas for rare dishes for their banquets, and ornamented their houses with carpets from Babylon, onyx cups from Bithynia, marbles from Numidia, bronzes from Corinth, statues from Athens,whatever, in short, was precious or rare or curious in the most distant countries.

Indeed, the episode set him to ransacking the desk in which Patricia had found thema desk which, as you have heard, was heaped with the miscellaneous correspondence of the colonel's father dating back a half-century and more.

Sometimes, he ransacked the old library; sometimes, Miss Annie read to him; and sometimes, he read to her.

He took her seriously, and ransacked all his store of second-hand philosophy for a worthy answer,a musty store, dead and pedantic, after the thrilling spirit of her words.

"It was therefore presumed that the murderer, having accomplished his fell design and ransacked his victim's pockets, had found the keys and made good his escape by slipping into the Square, cutting under the tunnel, and out again by the further gate.

Why had they ransacked all those confidential papers?

I have ransacked history to find there the golden age of Catholicism.

"I have heard," one of them would begin,and then followed a string of the wildest bazaar- rumours, interspersed with many a "tobah" (fie) "iman-se" (honestly or truly) or "mag kai" (what happened next), which apparently produced such a hunger and thirst that the Irani, thanking his stars for the outbreak of disorder, had to ransack all his cases for comestibles, aerated waters and tea.

" That same "indefatigable youthfulness" which converted courtiers into sailors and despatched them into unknown seas to ransack new worlds, urged men of the pen to seek out and to pillage, with an equal ardor of adventure, the intellectual wealth of their contemporaries in other lands and the buried and forgotten stores of the ancients upon their own neighboring book-shelves.

Thenceforward you have the whole eveningthe whole night, if needfulto ransack the treasures of the house and to make good your safety.

I ransacked the chamber, dived among his clothes, but found no stone.

The major ransacked every nook and corner of the prisoner's chamber and the interior of such pieces of furniture as might afford a possible hiding-place.

Every known authority on the subject, from Pliny to Gildas, was carefully considered; every learned pilgrim to Rome was commissioned by Bede to ransack the archives and to make copies of papal decrees and royal letters; and to these were added the testimony of abbots who could speak from personal knowledge of events or repeat the traditions of their several monasteries.

In this dilemma, and while ransacking my brain-box how to remedy the difficulty, a lady came in, and having passed me, Sambogrinning through a chevaux-de-frise of snow-white ivoriesinformed me that was "his Missus."

Dowthwaite made himself unpleasant about his broken wall, the Askews turned the grouse back, and then I found the Allerby cottage children, ransacking Redmire Wood when the pheasants were going to roost.

For arts, like these, preferr'd, admir'd, caress'd, They first invade your table, then your breast; [y]Explore your secrets with insidious art, Watch the weak hour, and ransack all the heart; Then soon your ill-placed confidence repay, Commence your lords, and govern or betray.

Her daughter-in-law ransacked the drawers, kept some of the furniture, and sold the rest; then they went back to their own home.

But as in such novels as "Philidore and Placentia" and "The Agreeable Caledonian" the characters wander widely over the face of Europe and even come in contact with strange Eastern climes, so the writers of romantic tales ransacked the remotest corners of literature and history for sensational matter.

The little ones cry for hunger, so I ransack the ruins and bring away my spoils.