plunderous

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Their Cavalry indeed is not so constituted; but a foolish love for their horses makes them astonishingly plunderous of forage; and thus they exhaust a district far faster in that respect than do the Germans.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

Cash is done; the world rising, all round, with plunderous intentions; and hungry Ruin, you would say, coming visibly on with seven-league boots: here is little room for carrying your head high among mankind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Carlyle, Thomas

"MENTERIS IMPUDENTISSIME," said Walpole in his dog-latin once, in our Royal presence, to one of these official plunderous gentlemen, "You tell an impudent lie!"—at which we only laughed.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

Presently abandoning the comtemplation of Gonzaga he turned to his companions, and across to the listener floated a coarse and boasting tale of a plunderous warfare in Sicily ten years agone.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael