rapine

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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

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

You say I have described a conspiracy now existing in Ireland as marching through rapine to the break-up of the United Kingdom. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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 consisted of Romulus’ own troop, and a confluence of banditti inured to lawless acts, and subsisting by rapine, who were called from their fastnesses by the proclamation of a bold, cunning, and hardy adventurer67.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John