Secondly, the Privateer supposes a state of war (or at least that of reprisals); the Pirate plunders in the midst of peace, as well as in war.
Death, with a skillet on his head, plunders the tinker's basket.
Death with a skillet on his head plunders the tinker's basket.
He is called clever who cheats and plunders his friend.
He plunders Maracaibo and Gibraltar 60 His Contrivances to effect his Retreat 61 CHAP.
Drummer~, a robber who first makes his victims insensible by drugs or violence, and then plunders them.
Perhaps some would say, Is it then our duty tamely to submit to the rapine of the prig who now plunders us for fear of an exchange?
Even the virtuous Savara prince described in the story of Jimutavahana plunders a caravan.
The king said to himself, "Without doubt this is the thief, who sallies out by himself and plunders my city;" so he went up to him.
And the king said to himself; "I am quite certain that this man is a thief; no doubt he sallies out alone and plunders this my city.
Theodorus, by order of the Emperor Justinian, plunders Ravenna and sends the principal inhabitants to Constantinople, where they are cruelly murdered.
But when I considered, that from Chedorlaomer to Mentzel, colonel of hussars, every one kills and plunders his neighbor according to law, and with his patent in his pocket, I was greatly distressed.
The man who plunders on the highway may have the semblance of an apology for what he does.
But the robber of character plunders that which "not enricheth him," though it makes his neighbor "poor indeed.
No man can be more an enemy to society than he, by whose machinations our virtues are turned to our disadvantage; he is less destructive to mankind that plunders cowardice, than he that preys upon compassion.
Defn: One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
One whoplunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
In his retreat he plunders Jerusalem and despoils the Temple, in which he sets up the statue of Jupiter Olympias.
First campaign of Crassus; he plunders the Temple of Jerusalem and proceeds against the Parthians.
And he who prays and plunders is less a saint than he who does neither.
Of these two, we need not tell the civilized world that the broker plunders best.
Massacres and plunders were so common in that age, by the right which every petty lord pretended of revenging his own injuries and quarrels by private wars, that the treaty called the truce of God was set on foot.
By these means he obtains admission, and plunders the house of any thing which he can conveniently carry off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plunders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
