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Example sentences for "marauders"

Lexicographically close words:
maraschino; marasmus; maraud; marauded; marauder; marauding; maravedi; maravedis; marble; marbled
  1. Was the chicle sack of the green thread still on the sailing boat of the night before, or had the marauders carried it away?

  2. A party of these marauders had shewed themselves on the height about Hume castle, with trumpets sounding and colours waving in the air.

  3. Bess was a winsome and a blithe bride that day, and though the wounds she received in the engagement with the marauders were not quite whole, she danced the best at the wedding, and was the first that lighted on Craik-green.

  4. Save when the English marauders were abroad, all was quietness by hamlet and steading.

  5. Not the one accompanying him and his marauders on their march, as is the wont of these predatory birds.

  6. About the behaviour of the birds the marauders take no note.

  7. On the other hand armed workers patrolled the streets at night, doing battle with marauders and requisitioning arms wherever they found them.

  8. In extenuation of the thefts of our little marauders it may be pleaded that they invariably pick off the weak and ailing birds, and therefore tend to the survival of robust and healthy stock.

  9. Under some wall or rock great numbers of egg-shells may often be found, testifying to the havoc which these sable marauders commit.

  10. As in the case of the heron, nothing will save the fry from these marauders but covering in the rearing ponds with the finest wire net.

  11. As soon as a sufficient number had sold their wares to make a journey safe from marauders they would start for Hudson's Bay, while the weather was pleasant.

  12. Noko, thanks for keeping Rose of Quebec where neither wolves nor marauders could get at her.

  13. So long as Spain claimed a monopoly of South American trade, it was the business of Spain alone to keep the marauders away; other Governments were not disposed to assist her.

  14. So bold were the marauders that they cruised in sight of Bombay harbour, and careened their ships in sight of factories along the coast.

  15. Hence, it is in land-wars irregular bands of marauders are liable to be treated as lawless banditti, not entitled to the protection of the mitigated usages of war as practiced by civilized nations.

  16. The supplying of convoys, therefore, was ceaseless, for the depredations of the marauders were unending.

  17. Even in the remote and impoverished north of Sardinia, the shepherds near the beaches watched their flocks with arms beside them, day and night, to repel the attacks of marauders from the sea.

  18. But the Amorites of Hebron were never apparently disturbed by the chariots, and appear in these letters as marauders of Egyptian stations.

  19. The marauders seem to issue from the mountains, destroying the commerce of the plains (compare 59 B.

  20. Deprived of their leaders, bewildered and alarmed at this strange and unexpected occurrence, the marauders remained irresolute.

  21. A few only of the marauders were in a position to offer any resistance whatever.

  22. What time, think you, will these marauders leave their hold?

  23. Before the horseback messenger could reach the authorities, the marauders would have disappeared.

  24. The wild tribes of the northern hills would sweep down into the valley, leaving a strip of burned and plundered country, and before soldiers could be gotten into the field the marauders would retreat to their native fastnesses.

  25. The gates were closed and the marauders thus confined to the main street, where they became easy targets for the men behind the barriers.

  26. Few of them had socks, and the marauders had removed their boots whenever they were worth taking.

  27. There was a fall upon the cabin floor--the grating sound of a body swiftly drawn along its surface--and one of the masked marauders rushed out dragging by the foot the preacher of the Gospel of Peace.

  28. He leaned out of the carriage window, and shaking his gold-headed cane at the mirthful marauders denounced them in language fearful in its impotent wrath.

  29. For some reason the law had not been appealed to to avenge the injuries of the marauders who had devastated Red Wing.

  30. Nor did they again find their courage return, but they sat there and saw the marauders after securing one of the farmer's horses again boldly dash away.

  31. These men were in a saloon refreshing themselves and telling their wonderful tale, when the rough riding marauders dashed up in front of the place.

  32. The marauders arrived one night when Mrs. Sedgwick was very ill, and Mum Bett was unwilling to admit them.

  33. The practice of the marauders was to enter and plunder gentlemen's houses in the night, on pretence of searching for ammunition and prisoners.

  34. Many light troops and marauders accompanied this body, so that the whole force which entered Laconia amounted in all to seventy thousand men.

  35. The devastation caused by these marauders was long remembered.

  36. The Major thus learns that these marauders really belong to Tippu-Tib, and that Stanley Falls is but six days' march overland from Yambuya.

  37. Stairs, with a few choice spirits of the garrison, had given chase to the marauders and had routed them, losing one man in the action, but scaring the undersized thieves effectually.

  38. At Hirakata the drilled infantry broke into the storehouses of the townspeople who had run away, and disguised themselves in the finest garments they could find; other townspeople pursued the marauders and killed six of them.

  39. A civil governor had been appointed for Kioto, and a night patrol to arrest marauders and disturbers of the public peace.

  40. I think the Prussians must have their hands full over there, for my marauders have not reappeared.

  41. In the light of day these night marauders looked the cruel, bloodthirsty bandits they were, the three whom the spell of Arctic cold had ermined presenting an even more fiendish aspect than the others.

  42. He was quick in distinguishing marauders by their footfall and by the rustling they made in threading the ripe corn.

  43. Yet close as these marauders approached the seats, they never discovered the hare.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marauders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.