Haggart, moreover, was an expert, pursuing a difficult art, while Simms was a bully, plundering his betters by bluff.
With this army to aid, he harried Sutherland and the North, lifting cattle, plundering homesteads, and stopping wayfarers with a humour and adroitness worthy of Robin Hood.
Now the earl was a tyrant and a robber, and had done much evil on the borderlands of Geraint, in burning, plundering and slaying, since he had heard that Geraint was become soft and foolish.
Word was brought to Sir Lancelot of the landing of King Arthur and the plundering and wasting of the land, but for some days he would do naught; for he was loath to take up arms against the king he loved, who had made him a knight.
Drake proceeded up the western coast, plundering as he went.
With eleven hundred men he cruised the coast from Caracas to Honduras, plundering Maracaibo and Trujillo on the way.
He at once began plundering raids westward by land, seeking gold and slaves.
While the Americans were engaged in plundering the camp, they were suddenly attacked by another force of six hundred under Breymann, sent by Burgoyne at Baum's request.
To prevent the plundering of commerce in the Indies, by French, English, and Dutch, Spain was forced to adopt a system of fleets sailing periodically and protected by convoys of armed galleons.
Reaching the Pacific with only one vessel of the five with which he had started, he proceeded up the coast of South America, plundering as he went.
Reinforced by bodies of their kinsfolk from Krete and the islands of the Greek seas, the Philistines poured over the frontier of Judah, plundering and destroying as they went.
Tiglath-pileser swept the land of Ararat to the very gates of its capital, destroying and plundering as he went, and a war began between north and south which ended in the triumph of Assyria.
The invaders had swept through western Asia, plundering and destroying as they marched, and bringing in their train contingents from the countries through which they passed.
Their services were hired by the rival princes of Palestine, and from time to time we hear of their seizing or plundering its cities on their own account.
Though Bacon himself was never accused of putting any one to death in cold blood, or of plundering any house, he found that the people began to complain bitterly of the depredations, rudeness, and disorder of his men.
Here was publicplundering for private greed; here were wire-pullings and bargainings and selfishness reigning supreme.
They left Havre on the 16th of July, and two days later made their appearance on the coast of Sussex, where they spent some time in plundering insignificant fishing villages.
A way out of the difficulty was found by plundering the creditors of the Crown.
From Sallee in the West to Tripoli in the East, their cruisers were out again plunderingand capturing every English ship they found unprotected by a convoy.
In the spring of 1545 (the operations of the previous year had merely been the transport of the army, and a few plundering expeditions) preparations were made on both sides for something deserving to be called war.
He told Pepys that the King of Denmark was "a blockhead," for not seizing the opportunity of plundering the Dutch fleet at Bergen, since he owed the States a great sum of money.
The first part of its work was to chastise the Barbary pirates, who had recovered from the scare caused by Blake's attack on Tunis, and were again engaged in searching and plundering English ships in the Mediterranean.
So little was Hawkins restrained, that he was allowed to combine with some of the "Beggars of the Sea" for the purpose of plundering some Spanish ships which took refuge in Plymouth Sound while he was lying there with his squadron.
After his disasters in the islands, he returned to the coast of Africa in May '52, and applied himself alternately to plundering the English at sea, and the Moors on shore in the neighbourhood of Cape Blanco.
The essential fact is, that a scheme was made for plundering the Dutch, and that the host with whom they had taken refuge was a party to it.
In this year the operations began as before, that is to say, the English fleet sailed over to the coast of France for the purpose of making plundering raids, and then there was a fight between the two fleets.
Although they no doubt supplied some kings with stout shipmen and useful vessels, it may be doubted whether they did not on the whole do as much in the way of fighting and plundering their own countrymen as against the national enemy.
The frigate in which Genet came to America became one of these privateers, and proceeded northward toward Philadelphia, plundering the sea on her way.
The order which recalled that general to Lutzen had reached him in Halle, while his troops were still plundering the town.
At the same moment he fell from his horse pierced by several more shots; and abandoned by all his attendants, he breathed his last amidst the plundering hands of the Croats.
To avert the plundering of his territories, he made offers of peace, though these were intended only to delay the king's course till the arrival of assistance.
The towns groaned under the licentiousness of undisciplined and plundering garrisons, who seized and wasted the property of the citizens, and, under the license of their position, committed the most remorseless devastation and cruelty.
The plundering attacks by the British upon the New England coast became so violent that, without waiting for Congress to act, Washington had several armed vessels fitted out.
The British went on surprising and killing small garrisons and plundering the country.
He broke into France at the head of a numerous army; to which he gave a full license of plundering and ravaging the open country.
From this time onward the kings of a¸¤A-ra and GhassAin are continually raiding and plundering each other's territory.
The Pre-islamic history of the Bedouins is mainly a record of wars, or rather guerillas, in which a great deal of raiding and plundering was accomplished, as a rule without serious bloodshed.
Deputations from the Bedouin tribes poured into MedA-na, offering allegiance to the conqueror of the Quraysh, and reluctantly subscribing to a religion in which they saw nothing so agreeable as the prospect of plundering its enemies.
After plundering the City, they set fire to it, and it burnt for some Days.
In 1642 he gathered together a crew of more than a thousand buccaneers in the Islands of St. Kitts and Barbadoes, and sailed with these in three ships to the Spanish Main, plundering Maracaibo and Truxillo.
In the year 1689 cruised off the coast of New England, burning and plundering the shipping.
Next he sailed to the Canary Islands, and then to the Guinea coast, plundering ships and stealing negroes, until November, 1682, when he arrived at the city of San Domingo.
Took an active part in taking and plundering the King Solomon on the West Coast of Africa in 1721.
A warrant was issued by Lord Carlisle, the Governor of Jamaica, for the apprehension of Coxon for plundering Porto Bello, and another was issued soon after by Morgan, when acting as Governor, but nothing seems to have resulted from these.
Gibbs led a mutiny, seized the ship and turned her into a pirate, and cruised about in the neighbourhood of Havana, plundering merchant vessels along the coast of Cuba.
Here the enterprising captain stole a small vessel, and again started off "on the account," plundering a village called De los Cagos in Cuba.
After this, with 700 men he sailed to Maracaibo, spending six months on the lake, seizing the shipping and plunderingall the settlements in the neighbourhood.
Commanded the Fame, which set out in 1703 in company with Dampier in the St. George on a plundering expedition to the South Seas.
Morgan now set about plundering the city, a large part of which was burnt to the ground, though whether this was done by his orders or by the Spanish Governor has never been decided.
Tried for piracy at Cape Coast Castle, and hanged in chains in 1718, for taking and plundering the King Solomon.
While plundering several small vessels of their cargo of logwood in the Bay of Honduras, Spriggs was surprised and attacked by an English man-of-war, and the pirates only escaped by using their sweeps.
Now a merchant must needs look on every sail with more or less distrust, as there is always a chance of meeting with ship-plundering Vikings, though the best of them will do naught but take toll from a trader on the high seas.
Jews and plunderingthe Temple, withdrew to Antioch.
But strangely enough--so ran the report--he gave the peasantry a similar warning, in case they should attempt any plundering of the manor.
If he hope for booty let him keep away; for no plundering will be allowed, and with my own hand shall shoot the man who, while following my banner, shall dare to touch any man's goods.
There they remained for some days, plundering and ravishing; but were at last driven out again by Ferdinando and his watchmen, who, as you may well suppose, felt no manner of scruple whatever in knocking the ringleaders on the head.
The more the plundering by the French continued, the more both the wealth of Moscow and the strength of its plunderers was destroyed.
But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms.
A typical plundering director has even more to answer for by reason of what he does to his own shareholders than because of what he and the corporation may succeed in doing to the public.
Those who were drowned had been so blinded with covetousness while plundering the town, that they barbarously cut off the hands and ears of the women to save time in taking off their bracelets and earrings.
The Portuguese soldiers being now possessed of the palace, quitted their ranks and beganplundering in a disorderly manner, as if they had been close to the shore under protection of their ships, and had no enemy to fear.
After plundering this place, it was destroyed by fire along with fourteen vessels which were in the harbour.
In plundering the houses, gold, silver, and jewels were alone attended to by the soldiery, other things though of value being slighted as cumbrous.
Yet the perpetual plundering of the land, on which it lived, was a constant source of reproach to the army of Wallenstein.
