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This kind of spoliation is called privilege or monopoly. From Wordnik.com. [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference
This kind of spoliation, and popular enlightenment, are always in an inverse ratio to one another, for it is in the nature of abuses to go as far as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference
"spoliation," and "robbery," and to have protected not only the "powers that be," but the great majority of the Canadian people, from the shafts of his harsh imputations. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada] Reference
Nay, they even sanctioned future spoliation and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Turkey by agreeing to, and sharing in, the spoliation of Poland. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Beaujeu, who would have committed some act of spoliation, had not the. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
France -- that is, it had been beautiful before the spoliation by the. From Wordnik.com. [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference
It began and ended its career in spoliation and the shedding of blood. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
George, that ground rent may be nationalized and "tyranny and spoliation be continued.". From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
It was resigned to the Spanish governmental system of spoliation, and no one thought of reforms. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
In consequence it has, time and time again, been the scene of invasion, conquest, and spoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
Denis Quirk and the councillors, who now followed him, set resolutely to work to prevent this spoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
"Your majesty proposes to me a system of spoliation, to which I can never agree," said the king, proudly. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
What was spared in the moment of ruthless spoliation, lay long buried under heaps of rubbish and weeds -- till. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference
After the destruction of Corinth by Mummius and the spoliation of Athens by Sylla the art of painting experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Napoleon would even manage matters in such a way as to leave it to other hands to carry out this last spoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
The large columns carrying the ugly tabernacle on the grave of St. Peter are one of the results of this barbarous spoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
When he alighted in front of the Castle, the Baron was astonished to find how swiftly the marks of spoliation had been removed. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
On the opening of the discussion one Euaeon proposed a scheme of wholesale spoliation of the property owners to support the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The final disaster was the spoliation of their nest by a boy, who removed all four of the children, or "squabs" as he called them. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
It is absurd to suppose that when the act of spoliation took place village Hampdens could spring up on every hill-side in Connemara. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Accordingly he proceeded in the dead of night to the vault where she lay interred, and commenced the work of sacrilegious spoliation. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Were not these three powers actuated by a spirit of revenge and envy, as well as by a spirit of cupidity, in this spoliation of Poland?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Gilbert de Glanvill and the monks, and the church's losses through these, and its spoliation by King John's troops, to the same divine judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Lincoln became the headquarters of 60,000 insurgents, who, by the subsequent “Pilgrimage of Grace,” made their protest against the spoliation, A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
But suspicion of the plausible furniture collector has, I am glad to say, begun to spread, and the palmiest days of the spoliation of the country are probably over. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
While our present necessity compels us, as of course, to act with great circumspection, yet it would be unbecoming our dignity to quietly ignore the spoliation of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The present revival of interest in them is like a new-discovered sense, and is undoing the spoliation and neglect of an age subsequent to the Reformation, and for which the. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
In my last message, I recommended to Congress that it authorize the payment of the findings or judgments of the Court of Claims in the matter of the French spoliation cases. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
This spoliation so enraged the parishioners that they, with some justification, raised a riot to prevent it; and the glass was only, it is said, got away under cover of night. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The convention of 1802, providing for the adjustment of a certain portion of the claims of our citizens for injuries sustained by spoliation, and so long suspended by the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
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