Yet he could not escape the realization that he would stand with all the seeming of a traitor and a plunderer to any of his simple friends who learned of his activities--for as yet he could confide to no one the plans he was maturing.
Even to her, until he was ready to prove his intent by his actual deeds, it seemed impossible to give that story without the seeming of the plunderer of her people.
The lodging of this subtle plunderer is called his kennel, or couch, and his occasional lodgments and passages to and fro are called his halts.
Catesby and Dampier have both observed and described these habits, and it seems from their account that the plunderer may either commit highway robbery in the air, or lie in wait for the boobies as they return to rest.
When influenced by affection, the brittle treasure is removed without flaw or fracture, and is replaced with tender care; but the plunderer at once plunges his bill into its substance, and carries it off on its point.
Smirre was a great plunderer who wasn't satisfied with only hunting rats and pigeons in the fields, but he also ventured into the farmyards to steal chickens and geese.
Shall we hold the corporate plunderer to strict account, and let the single separate plunderer go scot free?
That gallant pair raced each other homewards, shrieking with so much vigour that it almost seemed that in that direction they had made up their minds to outdo the plundererof the fields of honest men.
The two worthies agreed that, at the first opportunity, they would lay violent hands upon this plunderer of the fields of honest men, and make him wish that he had left such fields alone.
The assembly started, with the intention of making an example of the plunderer of the fields of honest men.
In the afternoon he declared that he had not followed the plunderer because he had been rooted to the ground, he knew not how nor why--rooted in the manner of his own turnips, which he had seen disappearing from underneath his eyes.
My career as a desperate plunderer terminated this morning—on the roof of the gaol: from the instant of my resuscitation I date a new term of existence—new in a moral as well as in a physical sense.
It is the cardinal doctrine of what John Quincy Adams has very properly styled the Satanic school of philosophy,--the ethics of an old Norse sea robber or an Arab plunderer of caravans.
That is to double the cheat--to multiply the chance of losing the little plundererby sending him abroad, and to get a chance of "shaving" him in if he does not go.
If at any time a royal edict issued, that England should pay a certain tribute, it was doubled by this plunderer of the rich, this exterminator of the poor, this confiscator of other men’s inheritance.
There is the custom of “fosterage” and there is the custom of “sponsorship” between the plunderer and the plundered.
That, no doubt, was to save the plunderer inside from fear from any missiles being aimed at him by any of the plundered people from the housetops of the city.
The plunderer knows that nothing kills the wrath of the Irishman so much as trust in his honor.
Shall we hold the corporate plunderer to strict account, and let the single separate plunderer go scot-free?
Besides, nothing was more shameful than riches which betrayed into captivity the plunderer whom they were supposed to enrich.
He further thought that for the same reason all men's property should be secured to them by a protective decree, so that what had been saved from a foreign enemy might not find a plunderer at home.
He is characterized, evidently with a little honest pride, as the third greatest plunderer of the English.
We never fell in, however, with any plunderer who so little understood how to turn his booty to good account as Mr. Montgomery.
The plunderer uttered a loud cry, and attempted to draw his sword; but before he could do so, he received a thrust in the side from his opponent.
And this same Asiatic gladiator, this plunderer of Italy, this colleague of Lenti and Nucula, when he was giving some pieces of gold to Aquila the centurion, said that he was giving him some of my property.
Would Antonius have been a guardian of the city, or its plundererand destroyer?
Read this letter, I pray, and you will be convinced that you yourself are the wrongdoer, plunderer and the hell-starosta of those who fight religion and Christian love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plunderer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bandit; bummer; marauder; plunderer; raider; ravager; ravisher; thief; wrecker
