1 They'll ransack that castle, he remarked with evident approval.
2 I ransacked it, but couldn't find anything else.
3 They worried over that awhile, and ransacked all around for it.
4 Well, Sister Phelps, I've ransacked that-air cabin over, an I b'lieve the nigger was crazy.
5 I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 6 I hear this Bertha Coutts besieges Mellors in his mother's house, having ransacked the cottage and the hut.
7 Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 8 The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 9 The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 10 He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
11 She took him by the hand, and without taking her eyes off him, gazed at him while she ransacked her mind for the words to say that would keep him.
12 I judged I better hide it outside of the house somewheres, because if they missed it they would give the house a good ransacking: I knowed that very well.
13 By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally collected five francs sixteen sous.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY