1 Here as at Tarutino they went after plunder, leaving the men.
2 Disregarding Napoleon they rushed after the plunder and Napoleon managed to escape.
3 The longer the French remained the more these forms of town life perished, until finally all was merged into one confused, lifeless scene of plunder.
4 Within a week the peasants who came with empty carts to carry off plunder were stopped by the authorities and made to cart the corpses out of the town.
5 Then indeed, amazed at the tokens and driven by madness, they raise a cry and snatch fire from the hearths within; others plunder the altars, and cast on brushwood boughs and brands.
6 Straightway the doors are torn open and the dark house laid plain; the stolen oxen and forsworn plunder are shewn forth to heaven, and the misshapen carcase dragged forward by the feet.
7 The victorious Rutulians, with their spoils and the plunder regained, bore dead Volscens weeping to the camp.
8 White hairs bear the weight of the helmet; and it is ever our delight to drive in fresh spoil and live on our plunder.
9 The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck.
10 Still," persisted Franz, "I suppose you will allow that such men as Vampa and his band are regular villains, who have no other motive than plunder when they seize your person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 38. The Compact. 11 Furnished with this plunder, Andrea leaped with a lighter heart from the window, intending to slip through the hands of the gendarmes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 12 "The thieves are outlying for scalps and plunder," said the white man, whom we shall call Hawkeye, after the manner of his companions.
13 An Indian seldom sleeps in war, and plunder may keep a Huron here after his tribe has departed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 14 It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 15 The immense plunder which this villain had amassed, was buried with him in the sea, and out of the whole only one sheep was saved.