Thus throughout Somerset and a great part of Dorset, these pirates spoiled and ravaged at their pleasure, finding none to hinder them at their task.

With these went a pitiful company of ladies of that country, naked of foot, spoiled of visage, with streaming hair and rent raiment, bearing their babes in their bosoms.

He had no mind to suffer hurt himself, or to see his goodly heritage spoiled in a useless quarrel.

Their enemy spoiled their houses, harried their cattle, bore away their wives and children, and returned to his fastness on the mount.

Depart, and leave an old woman to her tears and sorrow; for I have no care to live, since Helen and her love are spoiled with dust.

Such was the plight of the bailly which was spoiled of its captain, for an army without a constable is less an army than a flock of sheep.

Better to defer for a season the conquest of Rome, than to be spoiled of his own realm.

She has simply spoiled her chance of ever becoming a regular pupil, no matter how much she may desire it.

Gay colors are very pretty, but soon spoiled by perspiration, and white, the most fitting lining for a lady's ordinary frock, is unsuitable for a habit, since one long, warm ride may convert it into something very untidy of aspect.

"Yes," Nancy replied, "but she'll be much worse, more spoiled, more vain, more luxurious than before.

"Getting spoiled, that's what I am," he remarked, playfully.

This uniformity of versification, in the opinion of some, has spoiled our modern tragedies, as poetry is made to supply nature, and declamation characters.

"She's not accustomed to be spoiled.

And when Archie, with an unnecessary emphasis, delivered this closing clause of the petition, it was received with a roar of laughter from the platform, which made him flush angrily, and say, with a vicious punch in Sandy's ribs: "There, I told ye, it spoiled it a'.

If he had known how women admired him, he would have inevitably been more or less spoiled by it, wasted his time, and not have been so good a sailor.

My dreams are spoiled by circumstance, My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck; Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance, But that great hour has never struck; My progress has been slow and hard, I've had to climb and crawl and swim, Fighting for every stubborn yard,

In the course of a battle an officer reported to Stonewall Jackson that he must fall back because his ammunition had been spoiled by a rainstorm.

He does not give the cause, but says three shots were exchanged, resulting in one hat being spoiled, and then the antagonists shook hands and were better friends afterwards.

He is a pleasant Layman spoiled.)

Clerambault did not take offence; he rather felt great pity for Moreau; he knew what he suffered, and he could imagine the bitterness of a young life spoiled like his.

Clerambault could never cure himself of a childlike trust in anyone who came to him, and he allowed himself to be touched;besides, the press of his country had not spoiled him of late, so he poured out the inmost thoughts of his heart, while Thouron took it all in with the deepest interest.

Two gentlemen of resolution, in the meantime, attacked Heartfree on his way home, according to Wild's orders, and spoiled the enemy of the whole sum he had received from the count.

Bailli is recommended by Ford as "fat and good-humored" Fat he certainly is, and very good-humored when speaking of himself, but he has been rather spoiled by popularity, and is much too profuse in his critical remarks on art and architecture.

But now you two have gone and spoiled it all.

Good work never spoiled play yet.

What with the flats, where everything on earth is done for them, and the kindness of friendsjust think how bachelors are spoilt by their married friends!and their clubs, and the frightful expense of everything, it seems to me, as a general rule, that the average man must be madly unselfish or a perfect idiot to marry at allthat's what it seems to medon't you?

Suddenly a warm nose was thrust against his shoulder and, with the assurance of a spoilt beauty, the cow laid her head upon his arm.

'Note,' continues the record, 'In this play, Mr. Otway the poet having an inclination to turn actor; Mrs. Behn gave him the King in this play for a probation part, but he being not us'd to the stage, the full house put him to such a sweat and tremendous agony, being dash'd, spoilt him for an actor.' To quote Mr. Gosse's excellent and classic essay on Otway:'The choice of the part showed the kindly tact of the shrewd Mrs. Behn.

He begged to know what was amiss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoilt for the want of a roc's egg hanging from the dome.

HENRY LORD BROUGHAM (1779-1868) Brougham was intimately associated with Jeffrey in the foundation of the Edinburgh Review: he is said to have written eighty articles in the first twenty numbers, though like all his work, the criticism was spoilt by egotism and vanity.

They attacked the laced soldier, chattering furiously, grumbling at him, intimidating him with the charming gestures of spoilt and pouting children.

I had spoilt her.

'Now that you've nearly killed me,' I said, 'and spoilt my dress, perhaps you'll explain.' He produced the silk-bound book of manuscript from his pocket and put it in my unoccupied hand.

One evening, which had been partly spoilt for them by a tedious visit, Edward proposed that they should not separate so earlyhe felt inclined for musiche would take his flute, which he had not done for many days past.

Radipole is spoilt by an ugly railway bridge and some sidings belonging to the joint railways that lie along the eastern bank for some distance.

" Sutton Poyntz, in a charming situation between spurs of the hills, has been spoilt by the erection of the Weymouth Waterworks.

Gillingham church was spoilt by a drastic early nineteenth-century restoration.

'Lizzie is a good-hearted girl, if she is spoilt.

Every spoilt woman stands for a fool-man.

"'That would have been easy,' he answered, 'but Lizzie has spoilt the market for luxuries.

" "But you spoilt it all, Abdul," I protested.

They camped two nights at this place and dried some of their powder, but most of it was caked and spoilt.

*** Sugar is to be omitted from a number of medical preparations from December 1st, and children are complaining that the decision has quite spoilt their Christmas prospects.

" "The pert little mess is spoilt enough as it is, Heaven knows.

They're spoilt, and why shouldn't we be?" Lewisham having selected the bishops as scapegoats for his turpitude, was inclined to ascribe even the nail in his boot to their agency.

To a stranger it would appear to be almost entirely destroyed, but when M. de Polignac visited it recently he simply remarked that it was "less spoilt than he had imagined."

He was more than thirty years old when he inherited from his father two thousand souls,[A] all in excellent condition; but he soon began to squander his property, a part of which he disposed of by sale, and he spoilt his household.

It spoilt their evening, and owing to 'aving only about 'arf wot they was accustomed to they all got up very disagreeable next morning.

Bill groaned and hid 'is face in his 'ands, and then Peter Russet went and spoilt things by saying that the safest place for a murderer to 'ide in was London.

She must spoil her man, as well as make a poet out of himspoil him as the reed is spoilt.