He told me that, being too impatient to await my return, he had soon made up his mind to follow me, and by joining a band of pillagers was lucky enough to get safely through Saint-Just.
The pillagers excused themselves by saying they had been misled by a resemblance between two names, and this excuse, as far as appears, was accepted as valid by the authorities.
The veteran pillagersand murderers, the squireens, (hobereaux) of the reign of Terror, again appear and resume their fiefs.
Living beings were about to appear, pillagersof tombs, no doubt, come to unswathe them all!
After the Chippeways had left, the pillagersconcealed themselves in a path near Lake Calhoun.
These pillagers are in fact highwaymen or privateers--having no laws, and acting from the impulses of their own fierce hearts.
In the mean time, the two pillagers were lurking about; now remaining a short time with the camp of the Chippeways, now absenting themselves for a day or two.
The pillagers fired, and the father was killed instantly; but the son escaped, and made his way home in safety.
But while the Chippeways were preparing to leave the Falls, the pillagers were in the neighborhood of Fort Snelling.
The Pillagers and some other bands urged him strongly to this course, and his supremacy as head-chief was threatened unless he complied.
It was claimed by the Pillagers that "Hole-in-the-day" seized the occasion to profit personally in his negotiations with the agents of the Government.
Those gentlemen pillagers of stage coaches pique themselves on their great delicacy.
That is why these pillagersof diligences, who filched the government money to support the war in the Vendée, were called the Companions of Jehu.
At that time the prisoners denied their identity with the pillagers of the diligences.
Many of these were pillagers and incendiaries of the worst class, and strict orders had to be given to prevent their returning to the scene of their former exploits.
Soon afterwards several soldiers were seen returning to the town, apparently to share in the pillage, and struggling to force their way through the gates against the stream of pillagers and fugitives going the other way.
He had to pass en route numerous bands of pillagers and incendiaries, and on reaching the Palace was received by Admiral Seymour and a force of marines.
The pillagers and assassins had disappeared, but the atmosphere had become unbearable.
Sometimes they were transformed from pillagers to soldiers by an offer extended by the Roman authorities; more often they snatched a raid when there was for the moment no good garrison in their neighborhood.
They were not numerous; on the contrary, they were but handfuls of men, even when they appeared as successful pillagers and raiders over the frontiers.
Meanwhile the pillagers send him notice that if he does not abandon his rentals, they will cut down his forests and burn up everything on his estate.
Your pillagers take all; there is not even time for them to make you the offer.
The pillagers afoot stepped aside to let the pillagers in carriages pass.
They gave wide berth to the fires, but at a distance saw the flitting forms of pillagers among the débris.
I wish you would come down; our house has been knocked into a cocked hat, and I'm afraid that some of the pillagers may take it into their heads to pay us a visit to-night.
In 1365, companies of countrymen, and pillagers set free by the peace of Bretigny, succeeded each other in attacking Metz, and ravaging the neighbourhood.
The country round Bischofstein was swarming with robber-knights and pillagers of every degree, to such an extent, that the Archbishop Johann of Treves sent out a strong band of knights, who took up their abode in the castle of Bischofstein.
Now, a thousand householders in the streets of this oppressed city, with their gods and their goods in their arms, made the pillagers of Simon and John laugh aloud.
The voice of the prophetess swept on: "Ye have bowed to tyrants and bent your necks to murderers; ye have waged wars for pillagers and shared not in the spoils.
As the pillagers showed no disposition to interfere with him, he closed his eyes and ears to their brutalities, and sped forward.
As Mirza the Emir, I must meet the pillagers by claiming the Sultan sent me in advance to capture and guard you for" him.
Boutwell, who has just planted himself among the Pillagers at Leech Lake.
The crowd of rioters and pillagers were ahead of you?
The streets are encumbered with furniture and other wares; on all sides one hears the songs of drunken soldiers and the shouts of the pillagers fighting among themselves.
Listen to the tales of the adventurous pillagers of the rolling ocean!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pillagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
