Eginhard's indignation at the "rapine" of this "nequissimus nebulo" is exquisitely droll. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The king, while fully acknowledging Clive's services, thought him guilty of "rapine," and disapproved of his virtual acquittal. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
Now man by rapine lives; -- friend fears his host. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
There is but one mitigating thought regarding this rapine of the. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
There had been no rapine in the holocaust of this, His faithful servant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
But one night of tumult and rapine changed the popular standard of color. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
Death and terror, theft and rapine reigned in the beautiful city of the Scheldt. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
Moreover, what you offered was both defective in itself, and gotten by rapine and extortion. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 44: Malachias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The soldiers, glutted with blood and rapine, were withdrawn from the scene of their infamous excesses. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
They are, in truth, the tigers of the insect world, and their whole lives are devoted to bloodshed and rapine. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
From time to time came terrified runners with horrific stories of the burning of villages, of massacre and rapine. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other disturbances of Nature are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation] Reference
The policy of cruel rapine and extermination that so long shocked the universal sentiment of humanity has been reversed. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 39: Nahum The Challoner Revision] Reference
Numbers of disbanded soldiers from the north had made their way to London, where they carried on a system of rapine and outrage. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
In all places and in every direction rapine became the law, war spared neither life nor property, nor the position of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 40: Habacuc The Challoner Revision] Reference
And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Residing here, you could hold the sons of rapine at bay, enjoying at once your American harvests, and the golden remittances of your publishers in England. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
Cressy and Poitiers carried the military fame of England throughout the world, and struck terror into her enemies; but at home dwelt turbulence, corruption, rapine, and misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
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