Ransacked

Examples

• Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have been to her mother, I have ransacked the village--and all to no purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We have seen the mineral and vegetable kingdoms rifled and ransacked for substances that would yield the best filament. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Slipping in at the door he found that everything had been ransacked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Carefully they ransacked every hut and corner of the village, but no sign of D'Arnot could they find. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The world was ransacked for anything that might be claimed as an anticipation of what he had done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thus the earth, air and water were ransacked for lining materials, in some cases more for the purpose of obtaining a patent than to accomplish any real advance in the art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Evelyn ransacked our stores with childish eagerness, and we always brought some new found gift for our fair companion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The temperate and torrid zones of the world are ransacked in order to secure the wood, the minerals and the animal substances, all of which are necessary to provide the means of play. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The most remote countries of the ancient world were ransacked to supply the pomp and delicacy of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Wesley