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
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
Every article of human wealth has certain conditions attached to its merited possession, which, when they are unobserved, possession becomes rapine.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
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
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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