Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Bismarck, and it was the defeat and despoilment of France that fed. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
His world had been encompassed by the body and by his terrible urgency to rid Tesoros of despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [Death on the River Walk]
The creature kingdom was sure of their cause and resolute in their determination to become free from the despoilment by the beasts of theupright worms: their canine accomplices. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Park (Part I)] Reference
The Tokarskis warned that the highway would ruin the very places it was claiming to save: “What slops over the edges of the cities into the rural areas is all glitz and despoilment,” they wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Interstate 69] Reference
Every steak you buy, every potroast you eat, is encouraging the despoilment of the air you breathe, the sinking of the seacoasts, the melting of the glaciers and the desertification of now fertile land. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives] Reference
The EPA's most-wanted fugitive list is filled with people who smuggled ozone-depleters, dumped toxins into the water supply, and committed other criminal acts of despoilment (The EPA notes: "Do not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals"). From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
An aggrieved nation can, without interfering with the Monroe Doctrine, take what action it sees fit in the adjustment of its disputes with American states, provided that action does not take the shape of interference with their form of government or of the despoilment of their territory under any disguise. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
To tergiversate is to: a. restore a piece of land from a state of despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
The Minnesota park is under the charge of a state custodian, who cares for and protects it from despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference
The acquisition of money, except by despoilment, gift, royal favor, or inheritance, had been unknown at Oldenhurst. From Wordnik.com. [A Phyllis of the Sierras] Reference
I make them because I feel that dislocation and despoilment in myself, and I think our way of life is the cause of it. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
Even the negroes would have the laugh on them, -- the people whom they hoped to make approve and justify their own despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Marrow of Tradition] Reference
His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Greene's cover is that of the head of a conservation organization that buys up land in poor countries to ensure it is preserved from despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
But the high sense of justice which has always distinguished the United States in her public policies would not permit the despoilment of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
But, unfortunately, -- or it may be fortunately, -- the detriment to her public credit can be stated with substantial precision, and can be traced directly to her despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
Facing both death and despoilment of his treasure, the Belgian cast about for some plan of escape, and the only one that appealed to him as containing even a remote possibility of success hinged upon the chance of bribing Achmet Zek. From Wordnik.com. [Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar] Reference
It may qualify as progress that primordial slog only needs to be "about" the ambiguous squirm that comes from sitting out an excruciatingly staged despoilment, the queasy pleasure reflex that kicks in when watching retribution in action. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
Too much of our culture -- our political, social, economic, health and educational systems for a start -- are built on the rocky, crumbling foundation of human entitlement to unlimited population growth and unlimited use of and despoilment of the Earth's resources. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save the World] Reference
So when the news of his despoilment reached his father, he despatched me to him with these fifty loads, in place of those he had lost, besides a mule laden with fifth thousand dinars and a parcel of clothes worth much money and a cloak of sables and a basin and ewer of gold. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
As he executed his self-imposed task with considerable deliberation, those passengers whose turn was still to come had plenty of time to meditate upon their coming despoilment, and one of them -- the individual who had so kindly relieved me of my letter -- took it into his head to do me a good turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Castaways] Reference
Having reached the certainty that everything was in its former state, he waved his hand, and with one long look backward at the model, ghostly beautiful in its shining white transparency, he led the way to the passage of entrance, leaving the king to his solitude and stately sleep, unmindful of the visitation and the despoilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
Larkins) declared that his life was in danger among them if he attempted any further despoilment (as they called it) of the property. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
"There is a sign which all persons not Romans, and who have moneys or goods subject to despoilment, accept as warning-that is, the arrival at a seat of power of some high Roman official charged with authority. From Wordnik.com. [Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ] Reference
Austria and Germany, to accept Germany's cooperation with Austria in the despoilment of your country as a casus belli, and to declare war at once while our fleet is invincible and our Colonies free from danger. ". From Wordnik.com. [Havoc] Reference
1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Trust me, I've been called a lot of things that I'm not ( "neo-con," "neo-Catholic," "ultra-right-wing," "liberal", etc.), and proof is never offered (and, for the record, I'm not pro-torture, war, or environmental despoilment either). From Wordnik.com. [Just another Rutten bit of editorializing] Reference
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