Plundered

Examples

• From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Josiah Bounderby of Coketown is not to be plundered and nobody suspected. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The great church of Saint Sophia which Justinian the Great had built (532) was plundered of its treasures and turned at once into a mosque. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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