Other plunderers also attacked the weakened empire, of whom the most important were the Saxons, of whom we shall read more later on.
There used to be room for all the most activeplunderers to grab something.
The creed of the allied plunderers is that he should take who has the power and he should keep who can.
The Bedoos added that plunderers were lying in wait on the banks of the river Howash for the white people that were about to leave Shoa.
The head of the plunderers was a certain Mocobio, who had deserted religion and a town life, and was second to none in rapacity and cunning.
A few days before my arrival one of our Abipones pierced two of the plunderers with a spear.
The names of the other two plunderers are also carefully chronicled; they were Connor O'Melaghlin and Connor MacCoghlan.
If you can fall upon small parties of plunderers and destroy them you will do good service, not only by compelling them to keep together but by raising the spirits of the Saxons; but avoid conflict with parties likely to defeat you.
On this account they subsequently were forced to observe more caution, and whenever the plunderers began to retire to the high ground, our soldiers yielded to the unfavourable character of the country and retired.
Sometimes the plunderers fell in with parties of militia or with detachments from the English garrisons, in situations in which disguise, flight and resistance were alike impossible.
But the most formidable band of plunderers consisted of two and twenty horsemen.
The subjugation of theseplunderers had ever been deemed possible.
And then, that no part of misery might be spared to Domremy, the plunderers applied the torch to the houses.
At a time when the whole of Christendom was given up to pillage the men-at-arms of the Lorraine-Marches were renowned as the greatest plunderers in the world.
To the dozen had been added others--four Scotch plunderersstrayed from Hamilton's horse and half a dozen Breffnians from Ormond's army, who had been driven out of Munster by the rising of the Parliament men there.
After this O'Donnell had kept watch and ward upon his lands, with better results; Cathbarr occupied himself with raiding against the scattered parties of plunderers in the hills, and had won some booty.
Large bands of camel-plunderers kept hovering over our line of march, and it certainly looks as if they had been incited by some one of influence.
Plunderings went on as usual, and Æthelred had no resource but to pay money to the plunderers to buy a short respite.
Some French plunderers had got into the rear to seize upon the baggage, and Henry, believing that a fresh enemy was upon him, gave orders, which were promptly carried out, to slay the prisoners.
The plundererswere now known as 'the army,' moving about where they would.
Edward had gone to weaken the plunderers by plundering in return, and to fight battles only when they happened to come in his way.
Philip welcomed David Bruce and gave him protection in France, and in =1336= French sailors attacked English shipping and landed plunderers in the Isle of Wight.
Mingled with the plunderers from the front were many wounded men.
Amid the necessary destruction, private plunderers found facility for their work.
He is the kingfish that is robbing these small plunderers that come about the Capitol.
Half an hour later they reported ten of the plunderers killed.
The plunderers changed their location before the arrival of the detachment, however, and the raiders came back empty-handed.
The Vigilance bands that had at first shot plunderersvery freely were now either entirely dispersed by the plague, or busy between town and cemetery in a vain attempt to keep pace with it.
They had seen several bands of plunderers come over the river during the evening, and had lain quite still till it was dark, when they had lighted a fire, and sent one of their number to a neighbouring village for provisions.
Then, what guarantee had she that Rily would not make her his victim, after availing himself of her services in subduing the plunderers and recovering the stolen treasure?
Numbers of needy plunderers had arrived from Paris, and overspread these peaceful plains like evil spirits, rousing the worst feeling of our peasantry into action.
Glimmering lanterns or torches moved about the battlefield, those of the savage plunderers who crept about to despoil the dead.
By land, also, the attack on the dispersed plunderers was equally successful; and the Grecians, flying back towards their ships, were opposed in their way by the Venetians.
An outpost of cavalry and light-armed troops, prepared and equipped for acting in cases of sudden alarm, rendered every thing safe to their own soldiers, and dangerous to the scattered plunderers of the enemy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plunderers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
