spoilation
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"Civilization is a development through blood and spoilation," the architect remarked.
From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
They not only perfectly satisfied the soldiers everywhere, but revolutionized the opinion of both Houses of Congress, and thus saved the public domain from the wholesale spoilation that had threatened it.
From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian
The French spoilation claims that were being vigorously prosecuted in 1827 are yet undetermined in 1886.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
Upon the people of Canada this state of things imposes the duty of defending their altars, their homes and their property from desecration, pillage and spoilation.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
The Swamp Land Act of the same date, owing to its loose and unguarded provisions and shameful mal-administration, has been still more fruitful of wide-spread spoilation and plunder.
From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian
