rapine

Example Sentences

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He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine art of the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Clifford Castle is not associated merely with ideas of war and rapine, but with those of love and beauty. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

It was a mere contest of petty rapine in which strange princes parcelled out Italy; which can scarcely be said to have concerned Great Britain, and Pitt not at all.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

They will push their quarrels to extremities, and make them up in an hour, when the demon of rapine points to an object for common plunder.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore