The ryots were liberally paid on the spot; but the agents of the Beloochee chiefs often plundered the unhappy cultivators of the money that had been paid to them, even in front of the British camp.
Left alone with that chief, he was shamelessly plundered by robbers of higher note than the Sikh chiefs would willingly admit.
A different class of men from the Belooch marauders, who had carried off our cattle and plundered our stores in the southern country, were now surrounding our camp.
According to this writer, the Ameer was not only deserted, but plundered by his followers at the last.
The wealth she plundered in the Russian capital, within the short period of twenty months, amounted to much above one million of roubles.
Their home, twice plunderedby the Aucas Indians, had been utterly destroyed by fire in the last invasion.
Drunk with aguardiente, they danced in a burlesque fashion among empty barrels, which they had plundered from Poblacion del Sur and the estancias.
He has not only been deceived frequently in the past, and treaties with him violated, but he has also been plundered in ruthless fashion by those whom the government sent to look after his affairs.
The city was plundered for five days, and then Alaric withdrew to ravage the surrounding country.
The Dictator followed, condemning his soldiers to the melancholy task of looking on in inaction, while the enemy's cavalry plundered their faithful allies.
Caesar hastened across the Alps, surmounted the difficulties of crossing the Cevennes when the snow was very deep, collected his legions, marched upon Genabum, and plundered and burnt the town.
As the morals of the Romans degenerated, the provinces were plundered without mercy to enrich the coffers of the avaricious governors.
And when, on his return to Hungary, he found his estates plundered and devastated by order of the imperial governor, he was all ready to head an insurrection.
Here was a thicket of blackberry bushes, where she had torn her dress a hundred times; then came a huge old stump, whose decay had given birth to clusters of red raspberry vines, which she had plundered time out of mind.
Some, under the character of whigs, plundered the tories; while others, of the latter description, plundered the whigs.
No man went to his bed but under the apprehension of having his house plundered or burnt, or himself or family massacred, before morning.
A few days after the colonel's arrival, the house of one Gedney was plundered in the night, and the family abused and terrified.
Foreign merchants, living under the express sanction and protection of the Spanish monarch, were plundered with as little reserve as Flemings.
The fort which he had left there had been plundered and dismantled!
The Spaniards and Tlascalans plundered and burned wherever they went, and, as the Tlascalans seemed only to want clothes and provisions, the adventurers under Cortés secured all the gold and jewels that they cared to have.
He might be arrested too, or perchance plundered of his gains.
The servant promised to be silent, and told the other servants that the Marquis could be plundered at will.
We have not had more conquest than fine weather: one would think we had plundered East and West Indies of sunshine.
General Thurot accordingly made them prisoners of war, and plundered the town.
Then they retreated a few miles, but returned again to Derby, got ten thousand pounds more, plundered the town, and burnt a house of the Countess of Exeter.
He had conquered his armies, taken his cities, plundered his palaces, and made himself master of his whole realm.
It is given to hoarding, and stores up in its subterranean halls large amounts of edible roots and nuts, usually plundered by man in the autumn.
Seeing this, a swarm of Northern politicians called "carpetbaggers" went south, made themselves political leaders of the ignorant freedmen, and plundered and misgoverned the states.
These acts are charged against the king in the Declaration of Independence: "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
The next year, with twenty-five ships, Drake attacked the possessions of Spain in America, and burned and plundered several towns.
By the latter old cities were plundered and destroyed; by the former new ones were founded and established.
In their way they plundered and burnt every house, among which were those of Sacheveral, Nash, and Spry, killing every white person they found in them, and compelling the negroes to join them.
A number of negroes having assembled together at Stono, first surprised and killed two young men in a warehouse, and then plundered it of guns and ammunition.
Had the most precious jewels of the Holy Roman Empire been plundered by the Turks, there could not have been a greater commotion than arose among the wedding-guests.
Aretas, the king of the Nabathaeans, placed his troops at the command of the Roman general, and as they formed the vanguard of the Roman army, they burnt and plundered all the villages through which they passed.
Many Judaeans lost their lives, many were imprisoned, and the houses of the rich were plundered and destroyed.
Italians will always pretend, on any occasion, that you have been plundered much worse than they but the reverse often happens.
And the populace, soon after, broke into the houses of both these noblemen, threatened their persons, and plundered their goods.
They desolated the open country; burned and plundered the villages; and by cutting off all means of communication or subsistence, reduced even the inhabitants of the walled towns to the most extreme necessity.
How often has heplundered our houses, assaulted ourselves, insulted our women!
Of course they expected everything to beplundered and destroyed, and, weak and old as they were, they saw no hope that they would ever come back.
Many empty shops--which had been plundered after the departure of the owners--had been laid hold of by German civilians, who had lost no time in bringing their little trade to France.
It is, for instance, quite possible that Attila, King of the Huns, passed and plundered Nuremberg, as they tell us.
Knights plundered and traders quarrelled as they would.
These he plundered and took prisoners as they were crossing the Rednitz, near Forcheim.
We may note at this point, however, that the Chroniclers declare that the town fell into the hands of the enemy, through the treachery of the Jewish inhabitants and was plundered and burnt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plundered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
