According to Tabari, he actually slew the Ephthalite monarch, ravaged his territory, and pillaged his treasures.
Seeing that the guards were given the preference they broke out in revolt, entered by force and pillaged the magazines.
Houses werepillaged and sacked, half the town was burned down, the Niemen was being crossed at all points, and it was impossible to stem the tide of fugitives.
Von Brandt now describes how the mass of fugitives came and pillaged the magazines.
Friend and foe, Frenchmen and Russians pillagedthe wagons.
The magazines were pillaged, as they had been pillaged at Smolensk.
Their houses were pillaged and wrecked, but they themselves escaped to the Castle of Genappe, which John had placed at their disposal; and he at last succeeded in quelling the mob which was clamouring round its walls for their lives.
The capture of the southern stockades was followed after a day's interval by the evacuation of the latter and the flight of the garrison, who however pillaged the town as far as they could before leaving.
The Areopagitica is not the only work which he pillaged on this occasion.
The simple and the careless were pillaged without mercy by extortioners whose demands grew even more rapidly than the money shrank.
They had been pillaged and insulted, not only by the commissioners, but by one commissioner's lacquey and by another commissioner's harlot.
Every thing that was given to others seemed to him to be pillagedfrom himself.
Those people about her robbed and pillaged the poor princess horribly; but that is always the way with a brood of favourites.
He robbed and pillaged me and was made to sell his office, for which he got a high price.
It is not true that her servants pillaged her furniture.
Freebooters in the pay of King Charles, when they pillaged travellers and held them to ransom, did not stay to ask whether they were Armagnacs or Burgundians.
But, on the contrary, your strength and your glory have so inflamed your pride, that you have pillaged and laid waste all that surrounds you, and you have killed no inconsiderable number.
Homes were broken up; houses were pillaged and burned, bought and sold.
The wah's done away with most of them hereabout, but we were fortunate in not being pillaged and burned, like many of our neighbors.
At Elisabetgrad and Kiev the Jewish quarters were systematically pillaged and then given over to the flames.
The Moors under Almanzor pillaged the city of Santiago in 999; then they retreated southwards, as was their wont.
But if, in days to come, seeing your property pillaged and your nobles massacred, ye were to forsake him, shame would be brought upon you in this world and the next.
If Providence has decreed our last hour, we shall at least die with honor, instead of being dispersed, pillaged and slaughtered by Cossacks.
As a result of the insurrection in Corsica Napoleon saw Ajaccio in ashes, and the home of his childhood pillaged and burned ere he took his departure.
The country folk have been so pillaged by the soldiery, whose license is frightful, that they are reduced to beggary.
Then finding that they outnumbered the Catholics they pillaged the treasury of the cathedral and robbed the monasteries.
Failing to take Doulens by surprise, Cocqueville pillagedthe abbey-town of Dammartin.
The reiters in the course of their return home, pillaged the fair of Champagne (Claude Haton, II, 592 and note).
Cyrus also sent back to them the vessels of God which king Nebuchadnezzar had pillaged out of the temple, and had carried to Babylon.
How Crassus Came Into Judea, And Pillaged The Temple; And Then Marched Against The Parthians And Perished, With His Army.
How, Upon The Quarrels One Against Another About The High Priesthood Antiochus Made An Expedition Against Jerusalem, Took The City And Pillaged The Temples.
The Northern soldiers burned and pillaged thousands of homes, and ruthlessly destroyed millions of dollars' worth of private property.
The monster, Sherman, in his march through Georgia and North Carolina, burned and pillaged as no army ever did before, leaving a burned and blackened swath behind him forty to sixty miles wide.
They immediately broke open and pillaged the cabins, plundered the men basely of their clothes and every thing else worth taking, and throwing overboard whatever did not please their fancies.
I visited the Islands of Corfu, Cefalonia and Zante, inquiring of the Governors and if they had any abuses to be remedied, and I soon had over ten Petitions from Merchants whose boats had been plundered and pillaged by both parties.
Public and private property was systematically plundered and pillaged in order to enlarge the resources of Germany at the expense of the rest of Europe.
The village had to pay dearly for its sin of hospitality; it was pillaged and burnt down: the miquelets even murdered two women whom they found there, and d'Aygaliers failed to obtain any satisfaction for this crime.
Gliding about on tiptoe, opening doors noiselessly, with all the skill of an accomplished thief, he pillaged shop and cellar, and sold his plunder in remote parts of the town under assumed names.
But during this confusion the Franks burst over the Rhine, and not merely overflowed all Gaul, but penetrated also into Spain and indeed pillaged even the coast of Africa.
The Dalmatians, indeed, broke repeatedly into Macedonia and pillaged the coast as far as Apollonia; but there was no invasion of Italy, and the fire was soon confined to its original hearth.
There was hardly any fighting on Macedonian soil under the empire; only the barbarian Dardani on the upper Axius (Vardar) still at times pillaged the peaceful neighbouring province.
She took the very ring from his finger on the morning of the day when he died, and left him to be pillaged by his faithless servants.
Our muskets had been piled up in the corner with those of the young men, but it was soon apparent that they had been pillaged while we slept, for a purpose we could readily imagine.
We should have been pillagedupon the high road," he said truculently.
It is true that the first-comers pillaged brandy from the cellars of Slawkowo, but this was poor sustenance for men whose greatest necessity was bread, and in this respect we quitted the town as poor as we entered it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pillaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
