I was in Nu-ping when that yarn got abroad that the missionaries had secretly looted that old temple and had removed millions in loot, burying the treasure secretly in the compound grounds of the mission at Nu-ping.
In the resulting chaos parts of Mayfield were burned and looted by hunger-crazed mobs that stole and killed as they advanced.
Everything in the whole southern part of the valley, beyond the point, has been looted and burned.
Do Bhuttias, unless they have just looted a garden successfully--and we know these fellows had not--carry sums like this?
Men ran forward to the smouldering ruins of the factory and threw on them tins of kerosene oil, lootedfrom the murdered Parsi's shop, until the flames blazed up again and lit up the scene.
They murdered the Parsi storekeeper, looted his place, and got drunk on his dáru.
I found a screed of Latin along with the mummy, when I looted it from your Lima house, but it dropped out of my mind as to what became of it.
Your Government has shifted fifty times since I looted the corpse.
Thirty years ago I could have looted them, and again the other day.
He then took the manuscript, which he looted from Bolton's corpse, and hid it among his books, as you say, while he left the blamed mummy in the garden of the old lady you talked about.
And if Vasa sold it to the man in Paris," said he calmly, "he certainly would not tell the purchaser that he had looted the mummy in Lima, and the poor man would not know that he was receiving stolen goods.
It was found to have been very recently deserted by its European occupants, and since their departure had been partially looted by Kafirs.
In almost every kraal was found something or other which had been taken from his homestead, which had evidently been completely looted before it was burnt down.
Is it because the moneygods have been unpropitious--because these robber barons have looted your railroad?
Most of the houses had been looted systematically.
Burnt cottages showed that the Boxers had passed that way and, as usual, had looted and destroyed everything they could lay hands on.
The Treasury was lootedat the same time as the Pala d'Oro by the French.
Having taken the insignia of office from the altar he proceeded to the palace, followed by an immense concourse of people, who in accordance with usage looted the palace of its furniture and received largess from the new Doge.
Most of the jewels were, however, looted by the French in 1797 and are replaced by inferior modern stones, which may be detected by the fact that they are cut in facets.
Fezensac mentions it—“In passing through the little town of Viazma, Napoleon came upon some soldiers who had looted a wine-cellar.
All the soldiers, turned second-hand dealers, were selling their plunder to those who had looted the treasure-chests.
I saw wagons full of gold and silver looted in the middle of the road, partly by Frenchmen, partly by Cossacks, without any display of hostility between them.
The men are busy at their evening meal, the murmur of their voices and the crunching of the horses, with their muzzles deep in looted corn, are only sounds that go to emphasise the stillness of the forest.
Our table is a door laid on a trestle bedstead from a looted farm.
The mission station close by, a very pretty little homestead with nice gardens and trees, had been looted and burnt by the rebels.
Biscuits and treacle, the treacle looted from the railway, where an obliging guard had said that he could not give permission to take it, but that he could look the other way.
Those rascally Afridis have come down and lootedseveral villages; and I am to go up, in command of a couple of companies, to give them a lesson.
The large war camp behind had been looted and burnt, and the stockade pulled down.
At the same time the villages around werelooted and burnt.
The Moros possessed a large number of Remington rifles, looted from the Spaniards, on whom they had often made surprise raids.
The Spanish quarters at Subig (Zambales) and Apalit (Pampanga) were attacked and looted in the first week of March.
After the insurgent generals had doled out their pay, the men went round to the shops and braggingly avowed that it was lucky for the shopkeepers that they had got money, otherwise they would have looted their goods.
All articleslooted from the churches to be restored within one year.
He states that Cameron Smith has been caught and has made a confession that he looted the safe at Point View Lodge.
Many were delivered only after the Turks had looted from them such articles as were scarce, including boots, clothes, and good tobacco.
Somalia's small industrial sector, based on the processing of agricultural products, has largely been looted and sold as scrap metal.
These were looted by Colonel Frank and Sergeant-Major Gordon.
In some houses dumps of looted fabrics from other towns were taken possession of, and altogether work for the courts was found for the next two months.
So it was more than three hundred years ago when the Kalmucks went into Tibet and the same was repeated in Peking when the European troops looted the place in 1900.
Afterwards we looted the house and burned it, even destroying the horses and cattle.
Cassey the thug, whom they had captured in that wild chase after he had looted the safe and nearly killed the operator in the sending station.
Gun and hardware stores were broken into and looted of all arms and ammunitions, and, by that means, a large number of the most desperate rioters became armed.
Those gallant defenders of the South looted all the stores on Main Street, and carried all they could conveniently get away with.
Both Cambridge and Ely were looted by him, and he terrorised the whole district, till at length he was slain, by an arrow through the throat, in attacking Burwell Castle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
