Verb (used with object) : The barbarians pillaged every conquered city. From Dictionary.com.
September 19, 2009 at 7:38 am pillager=burglar Yes?. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The German soldier is not an incendiary nor pillager. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
For instance, I've recently become interested in Boss Tweed, New York's most famous pillager of public money. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Library of Amazonia] Reference
He was a ruthless pillager of all he could get his hands on. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The Crown Prince has been pictured as a libertine and a pillager. From Wordnik.com. [Face to Face with Kaiserism] Reference
Therefore judge me not as sedition-monger and pillager because my coat is out at elbows. From Wordnik.com. [V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X] Reference
The pillager is in every house, plucking even the morsel of bread from the lips of the starving child. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
Of course, leave it to the Internet-that pillager of the publishing industry-to turn typos into profit. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
But go thou to the temple of Minerva the pillager, with victims, having assembled the matrons of distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
The engines of the yacht begin to revolve and the crafty old pillager almost gave a cry of joy as he felt the vibration beneath his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators in Africa] Reference
Sections of society will delude themselves into seeing Baitullah Mehsud as a spearhead against India, rather than a pillager of Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
The old soldier or professional pillager laughed, and confessed he had got so used to her, that he forgot at times Ghysbrecht had a prior claim. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Do thou, on thy part, go to the temple of the pillager Minerva; but I will go after Paris, that I may call him, if he is willing to hear me speaking. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer (1873)] Reference
pillager meets pillager, and the empty-handed shouts to the empty-handed, wishing to have a partner, greedy for a portion that shall be neither less nor equal. From Wordnik.com. [Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes] Reference
There were those who insisted then and still do that Conrad Black was a charming, rogue genius, rather than a callous pillager of the Chicago Sun-Times Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Beachwood Reporter] Reference
Way t’ go ye hearty pillager o’ the feline persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Easily Compare Deals to pillager Also See Photos & Candid. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Tradition would dictate a bigger winger - a bit more of a plunderer and pillager. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Which is why it’s so upsetting that this librarian just assumed I was lying and treated me like, to quote Dewey, a library pillager. From Wordnik.com. [A Contract with God by Will Eisner (Plus more book giveaways and Trouble at the library)] Reference
"I wish," he said, "Fathers, to swim the Tiber, and, if I can, enter the enemy's camp, not as a pillager nor to inflict retaliation for their pillagings. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference
I am that Ravenswood who, for your sake, forgave, nay, clasped hands in friendship with, the oppressor and pillager of his house, the traducer and murderer of his father.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Or nightly pillager that strips the slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
"No, a thousand times no! You are the Eletto of Aalst, the pillager of cities, and this cannot be swept aside as easily as the dust from the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
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"There was no necessity," replied the future pillager of the city treasury of New York, "for the Company is as much grander than any other fire company in the world as. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
I am that Ravenswood who, for your sake, forgave, nay, clasped hands in friendship with, the oppressor and pillager of his house, the traducer and murderer of his father. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Fierce pillager, the uproar terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew] Reference
As if the pillager had not been there. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works] Reference
RIDDEN, the particle of r/. pillager. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
New pillager — Lake Michigan. From Wordnik.com. [My Diary North and South] Reference
A pillager, a plunderer. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference
There, hungry, watch'd our pillager. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
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