Thesaurus / spoils
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All insert yis (or yes) before parde; which spoils both sense and metre.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERAll insert white after Was, which spoils metre and story (see l. 948).
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERWith his vast income, acquired from the spoils of nearly every country in Europe, he maintained his high rank in lordly fashion.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONAnd your spoils shall be gathered together as the locusts are gathered, as when the ditches are full of them.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSShe is one of those lovable little creatures that every body spoils!
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERRobert occupied the abbeys of Biland and Rievaulx and divided the spoils of the English camp and the king's baggage.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONThe expedition returned to Scotland laden with spoils, and bringing numerous captives and great droves of cattle.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONSaba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall say to thee: Art thou come to take spoils?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIn their dark recesses were concocted those treasons, stratagems, and spoils that desolated the land.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWAnd he went through even to the ends of the earth: and took the spoils of many nations: and the earth was quiet before him.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SPOILS
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