rapine

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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

It is like the tides, which wait not our bidding to rise or fall, but which leave us free to launch wisdom and industry, or folly and rapine, upon their waters.

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel

It was by the algrev's help, then; and not at all from true affection, but from pride and a love of rapine.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

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