The plundering of the Parthenon.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His plundering of the great authors.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to plunder a town. ,to plunder the public treasury. ,to plunder a piece of property.    From Dictionary.com. 

Robbing he called plundering the enemy; and hanging was, in his idea, a dastardly and cruel advantage that the latter took, and that called for the sternest reprisals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine: a Story] Reference

No. He recoiled at the idea of plundering his past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]

Department, suggested the idea of plundering them back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Photo: Stanley Greene Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?] Reference

Their officers roused them, ordered some to arm themselves and sent off others to recall the plundering parties dispersed over the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. IV] Reference

The Rose family called it 'plundering' a family gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Unrest on Campus as Donors Rebel] Reference

Harare is involved in "plundering" DRC's natural riches.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Can we afford to base our economy on that kind of plundering?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Revising Global Warming theory and the H1N1 threat] Reference

To call his actions "plundering" strikes me as a questionable choice of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paper on Parade: Art Theft in Taiwan and China] Reference

Mackay really "plundering" ( to take the goods of by force (as in war) - Merriam Webster)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paper on Parade: Art Theft in Taiwan and China] Reference

So, go back to "plundering" in your online "guild" and stop dreaming of ever being a pirate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

What is the BP oil spill if not a "plundering" of seas and destruction of coasts and economies?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Winston: A True Declaration of Independence] Reference

The Conservationists were fair game, those wild-eyed zealots who pretended modern civilization was in some way "plundering" our planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

I recently heard an academic at a conference describing such theatre as a kind of plundering, in which the place is used as a resource for a spectacle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking theatre must look where it's going] Reference

Bolivia slams Japan mining firm for 'plundering' mineral resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference

Let's call copy-on-read caching "plundering" for this discussion, for brevity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Fifty members of the Rose family issued a statement on Monday protesting what they called the "plundering" of the museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference

After his successful plundering operations in Carroll and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference

Gulph of Florida, plundering and taking ships of every nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

Notwithstanding it was generally understood that the plundering of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

When the Balkan mobs were not plundering, they were firing weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  ['THE BLOCKADE IS A JOKE'] Reference

The looting and plundering that has been going on in Pakistan since 1985?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Than A Thousand Words] Reference

There is no inkling that they might be plundering the public purse and doing wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sad Primer In Hypocrisy] Reference

At eleven o'Clock a fellow was caught plundering at Triplicane and brought into Town, who gave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Madras] Reference

The 'creatures' were the papal legates and nuncios and all their belongings, who were plundering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

These events are followed by another reign of terror, the plundering of churches and a war with Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

Many of the people who suffered from Nazi plundering, or their immediate descendants, are still alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spoils Of War] Reference

Antiquarians outside China say that without drastic measures, there's no hope of ending the plundering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grave Robbers] Reference

Others said that no greater scoundrel had ever dared the vengeance of the law, after plundering honest people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Their intention was radically different from the plundering soldiers that lay waste every region they passed through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Wagler: Ancient Empires and Conquerors: Reflections on my recent trip to Turkey, Greece and Italy] Reference

The millions of people trapped without supplies -- over-running the countryside, looting, plundering in search of food.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Max Shorter] Reference

Out of the depths of this store-house of sweets a plundering humming-bird flashed and vanished, a jewel from nature's crown!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Hungarian: another he has received news that the Turks were marching across his borders, burning, plundering and devastating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

I had loitered somewhat behind my party, watching, with pardonable curiosity, the adroitness with which a party of French were plundering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference

But, except out of professional solidarity, Western scholars care less about museum thefts than about the plundering of unexcavated sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babylonian Booty] Reference