I always thought that George had probably sacked most of the old staff, if they had not given him notice on their own account.

Here he remained seven years, until the convent was taken and sacked by the soldiers of the Emperor Frederic in his war with the Pope.

"Were you sacked?

You will probably get sacked.

" "Hello?" "I say, what would your people say if you got sacked?

"It would be a jolly beastly thing to get sacked.

After being sacked, you know.

" "Who's been sacked?"

I shall get sacked if I don't get it.

"It's no good now," said Jellicoe gloomily; "it's too late, I shall get sacked.

" "What about it?" "I had to pay it to a man today, or he said he'd write to the Headthen of course I should get sacked.

You'd get sacked if you were caught.

But for goodness' sake don't go gassing about it, or somebody will get to hear who oughtn't to, and I shall be sacked.

But when they found that Madame was actually going to prison, they rosejust as if they had been French Republicans deposed their despot after she had been taken prisoner, sacked her magic castle, and levelled it with the ground.

There now beneath the floor of Pytho lieth Neoptolemos, dying there when he had sacked the city of Priam where the Danaoi toiled with him.

Thus by their worship with the blaze of burnt-offerings among Aitolians have the mighty sons of Oineus honour, and at Thebes Iolaos the charioteer, and at Argos Perseus, and by the streams of Eurotas Polydeukes and Kastor's spear: But in Oinone the great souls of Aiakos and his sons, who after much fighting twice sacked the Trojans' town, first when they went with Herakles, and again with the sons of Atreus.

In 1495, after Cosimo's worthless grandson Piero de' Medici had been expelled from Florence and the Medici palace sacked, the statue was moved to the front of the Palazzo Vecchio, where the David now is, and an inscription placed on it describing it as a warning to all enemies of liberty.

When Constantinople was sacked by the Turk, Irene escaped, and was so far from being made a captive, that she even captivated the Grand Signior himself.

A 'Trading and Weaving Company' was established at Angora in 1916, an 'Import and Export Company' at Smyrna, a 'Trading and Industrial Society' at Beirut, a 'Tobacco Trading Company' at Latakieh, an 'Agricultural Company' at Tripoli, a 'Corn Exporting Company' in Lebanon, a 'Rebuilding Commission' (perhaps for sacked Armenian houses) at Konia.

In 1623 Shah Jahan actually sacked Agra, and his soldiers committed fearful atrocities on the inhabitants.

In 1739 Nadir, Shah of Persia, sacked Delhi, carried off Shah Jahan's famous peacock throne, and laid Agra also under contribution.

Here is a Hindu temple, built by one of the Bharatpur Rajahs, who sacked Agra about the middle of the 18th century, and occupied it for ten years.

These are not the men that have sacked cities, and made deserts, and written their triumphs in blood and carnage.

It was the murderer's house the soldiers sacked to-day.

The Barbarians sacked Gaul.