RAPINE in a Sentence

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1. , was a nursery of all the worst crimes, the slightest occasion giving rise to wholesale rapine and murder.

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1  , was a nursery of all the worst crimes, the slightest occasion giving rise to wholesale rapine and murder.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIX.
2  Behind the mists of ruin and rapine waved the calico dresses of women who dared, and after the hoarse mouthings of the field guns rang the rhythm of the alphabet.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
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