He looked at them hard; none of thelooters of his master's bungalow were among them; and it occurred to him that, as he had probably a long journey before him, it was sound sense to fortify himself with a meal.
Lo San hung about the house, having received his thrashing meekly, until the looters had stripped it bare.
It had been stolen out of the safe, and evidently the looters had not been able to get it away.
Among the out-of-town looters were two tramps who had it whispered about that they were two well-known generals in disguise, personal emissaries of the Emperor sent to direct the attack upon the Jews.
Following the looters were dense crowds of spectators, many of them well dressed and with the stamp of education and refinement on their faces.
One family was saved from personal violence as well as from the loss of its fortune by an iron safe which the looters spent the whole day in vainly trying to open.
Hundreds of the fiercest rioters were so many tottering wrecks before the atrocities were three hours old, while by sundown the number of dead and wounded looters was as large as the number of murdered and maimed Jews.
Hoddan ordered greater discrimination, but his pirates by this time were in the position of directors rather than looters themselves.
Nine of the dozen looters were at work on the task when there was a tumult back in the castle.
On Friday the Governor seized the railways to insure passage of relief trains and to keep sightseers and looters away from the afflicted municipalities.
Militia companies on duty were ordered to shoot looters on sight.
Pleading that troops be sent to Dayton to relieve the flood sufferers, saying that their need was imperative, and that the town was at the mercy of looters and fires, George B.
Just how many looters were killed was unknown, as information was refused.
Nine colored men and one white man were added to the seven suspected looters shot and killed since martial law was proclaimed.
Civil workers in the center of the town, where efforts were being made to clear away debris, reported that five looters were shot after midnight.
Citizens discredited the stories of executions of looters and were not over-inquisitive of details, because they realized that drastic measures were imperative under the existing conditions.
Looters were shooting people down in the streets, according to these refugees.
Orders to shoot to kill looters on the third shot were issued to the militiamen.
These trained troops were at once put on guard over the city, with directions to keep the best order possible, and with strict command to shoot all looters at sight.
More than one seems to have been shot as looters for entering their own homes.
Tuesday night ninety negro looters were shot in their tracks by citizen guards.
In the afternoon, at the suggestion of Colonel Hawley, a mounted squad of nineteen men, under Adjutant Brokridge, was detailed by Major Faylings to search a house where negro looters were known to have secreted plunder.
Father Constantine knew he was playing to put the lootersoff the scent.
For a few minutes he gave way and called the looters by names it did the old priest good to hear, for the soutane put a limit on his own language.
Ian had ordered a good stock of foodstuffs to be left in the huge storeroom, to satisfy any looters that that was all they had.
And the looters were the party shouting at the top of their voices about "vested rights" and "attacks on property" and "demagoguery producing national hysteria.
This Nation has been cowering behind the line of law, while the looters and skinners have disarmed our very firing line.
Looters were still to be found lurking in odd corners, notably in the Minet-el-Bassel quarter, where there were stores containing sugar and grain.
The looters retreated before them, and dropped their plunder.
There were signs of loot in all directions, and the bodies were evidently those of looters who had in their turn been robbed by the soldiers.
Next, crowds of looters were observed going back in the direction of Gabari, laden with goods from the neighbouring shops.
These plantations hid a large number of natives, who permitted the advance to pass because their files were unbroken, and their eyes on the watch, but those straggling looters soon gave the aborigines the opportunity.
With the view of not provoking the natives, and of preventing the incorrigible looters of the column from the commission of mischief, we took a south-east track to skirt the district.
In the distance we heard two rifles fired, and an agonised cry, by which we knew that there were some of our incorrigible looters abroad.
On all sides now the looters came up from the black depths of the slums like packs of hungry wolves, so that every minute we expected that Clery's underneath would be the next to go.
At times the looters slipped down the river in boats, and it became necessary to stop all night traffic.
For in that region looters came in from the desert, some from the villages and some from camps of nomad Arabs.
He saw many street fights in the white dust under the glare of the sun, but he said it was usually the Arab looters fighting amongst themselves.
There were some foreign looters in there at the same time, great swells too, and they just smashed the plate-glass over the cabinets and filled their pockets and their arms too.
For they knew that looters would probably not waste time attempting to match shoes in such confusion, when so much better things were lying near.
Jeering looters had torn these things down and cast them in the dirt to show, as a reply, that there was to be no quarter if they could help it.
These confident looters had already imagined that the pawn-shop was theirs to dispose of--after the honourable foreign soldiery had had their fill!
I have been ordered to supervise the clearing up of the village, have all the rubbish buried, and hunt looters and deserters out of the houses.
Looters have noses like bloodhounds for inhabited spots, and start at once in pursuit.
The direct damage inflicted by the looters was usually limited to tearing the lead from the roofs, smashing the windows, and defacing the tombs.
What mystery does it contain and why did it escape the church-looters of Puritan times?
You are particularly requested not to enter any business house or dwelling except your own, as you may be mistaken for one of the looters and shot on sight, as the orders are not to arrest but shoot down any one caught stealing.
The looters early began operations in the stricken city.
The war department had been morally responsible for the unhesitating way in which the troops shot down looters and the people who refused to understand that great situations must be controlled without regard to law.
Reports said that more than 100 looters and vandals were slain in the city and along the island beach.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
