Pillaged

It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

Thus did they establish their factory in the port of Firando, where they have maintained themselves to this very day, taking the silks that they have pillaged from the Chinese, and certain cloth stuffs from Europa, and buying food and supplies for their forces in the Malucas and other islands of those regions. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)

Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Pretending now to repent of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1884)

Leaked emails, seen by the Herald Sun, reveal several senior officers are worried they can't adequately police suburban beats because their staff are being "pillaged" for the ❋ Unknown (2010)

The court also noted that Mr Reeves "pillaged" Waterloo for his own purposes, racking up hotel and restaurant bills on company credit cards. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lombard Finance & Investments chief executive Michael Reeves "pillaged" a struggling firm to pay for a high-flying lifestyle ... .and some of his actions fell "well below those acceptable in business". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Newspapers had published the most horrific stories: Thousands of people had already drowned at sea, boats were being pillaged by pirates, women were being raped. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

The Party of NO stood calmly by for 8 year while the shrub raped and pillaged America, so, why would we listen to you now? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The legalization of drugs, reinvestment in pillaged communities and implementation of a thoughtful regulatory scheme for the manufacture, delivery and distribution of all currently illicit drugs will remove the profit, the violence and the systemic racism inherently linked to our criminal drug laws. ❋ Leigh Maddox (2011)

To find the grist for his tale, Mr. Jensen has pillaged the archives of his native Marstal and drawn openly from classics as diverse as the Old English poem "The Seafarer," Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II novel "The Cruel Sea" 1951 and of course "The Odyssey." ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)