含“plunder”的英语例句

When the pirates saw the handsome youth, who, they knew, would be a prize of greater value than all the plunder they could find in the fields, they ceased to pursue the goats or to search for other spoil, and dragged him to their vessel, while he wept in despair, and called loudly on his Chloe.

Their vessels being now full of plunder, the Methymnaeans deemed it advisable not to prosecute their voyage any farther, the more especially as they were apprehensive of the winter-storms, and of an attack on the part of the inhabitants.

The crews, having plenty of provisions among their plunder, ate and drank and gave themselves up to rejoicing, as if they had been celebrating a festival of victory.

You have filled the fields, which are dear to me, with the tumult of war: you have taken as plunder the herds and flocks, which were my peculiar care.

Why should a thief try to break in at a bedroom window, where there could be no hope of any plunder, and why should he come with a long knife in his hand?

"A castle indeed!" he continued, looking around him; "why, this is worse than a coupe-gorge house, where they receive travellers to plunder them of their property."

It is my intention to plunder and pilfer my weasely guts out.

I've come to plunder your treasure.

Deeper into the eerie room the party went with hopes of gold and plunder.

They lived for deeds of daring and plunder.

The privateer is a licensed, the pirate an unlicensed, plunderer; but plunder, not patriotism, being, as a rule, the motive of the former, it is not perhaps surprising that, failing legitimate prey, he has sometimes adopted, to a great extent, the tactics of the latter.

The plunder of Sahrawi phosphate generates around a billion dollars for the Moroccan economy.

The West wants to plunder the whole world.

This country he gave over to the Greeks to plunder, on the ground that it was hostile territory.

They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.

Our sword did not come to devastate Libyan homes; we will not plunder this city and return to the sea with the spoils: we do not have such a violent nature, nor is such audacity characteristic of the vanquished.