" They ransacked the house from top to bottom; and at length Frank came across another weapon.

When Uranus was found old records of stellar observations were ransacked with the object of discovering whether it had ever been unwittingly seen before.

" Madame Maupoix, aged 75, living at Triaucourt, was kicked to death while soldiers ransacked her cupboards.

Mother hadn't a thing old enoughI ransacked everywhereif

Then he ransacked the trunks until he found, amidst a pile of fashionable clothing, a quiet and inconspicuous suit of dark grey.

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.

The most remote countries were ransacked to furnish luxuries for Rome; every year a fleet of one hundred and twenty vessels sailed from the Red Sea for the islands of the Indian Ocean.

He felt the utmost anxiety regarding his men, among whom the pangs of hunger, upon bodies exhausted by fatigue, must have been working effects most unpromising to his success; and he gave orders, before seeking any repose, that the whole country should now be mercilessly ransacked for the means of refreshment.

He immediately caused the palace of the King of Cabul to be invested, and ransacked from top to bottom.

Old Spanish history was ransacked for information from the voyages of Cortez in the Gulf of California to the latest dates, and maps of the country were in great demand.

Meanwhile, a third ransacked the buggy with like result.

She ransacked her brain, trying to remember some acquaintance who might be likely to know the Hoffs, but failed utterly to recall any one.

Entrance had been made through the trap-door, two more doors had been opened, and then the desk had been ransacked.

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!

But the observer, the lover of Nature, was wanting; and the whole world was ransacked merely to consign its living tenants to the vivaria, and thence to the fatal arena of the amphitheatre.

Nature is ransacked, explored, and hunted down in every field, only that she may add to the general knowledge.

Escaping from the schoolroom, I ransacked the library, and at last my ardour was rewarded.

They got their stores into the house, which had evidently been ransacked by the rats after the flight of Mrs. Skinner, and four of the men took the two horses back to Hickleybrow.

Here then is a complete history of an invention, for which every quarter of the globe has been ransacked.

All the prisons were ransacked and emptied; the prisoners who attempted resistance were smoked out; they were hurled down from the windows upon pikes held up to catch them.

Carpentry-wood was wanted; he had ransacked Gondelour (Kaddalore) for it, sometimes pulling down a house to get hold of a beam that suited him.

They are bringing them to England and America in shiploads, to such extent and variety, that nearly all the dead languages and many of the living are ransacked to furnish names for them.

The supreme question now was to make the kill with safety, and the line was ransacked for volunteers who could shoot a rifle with some little accuracy.

Fenwick sat down upon a rock, ransacked his pockets for sketch-book and paints, and began to sketch.

I was half distraught with anxiety, and once or twice, whilst I knelt upon the hard floor, scrubbing and polishing as if my life depended on it, whilst hethe unscrupulous scoundrelsat calmly at his desk, reading or writing, I used to feel as if the next moment I must attack him with my scrubbing-brush and knock him down senseless whilst I ransacked his drawers.