Old times were ransacked and Christmas experiences in them were given without stint, and the season was voted, without dissent, to have been far ahead of Christmas now.
The rest of him was secured very quickly, and, as he could not cry out, he had the felicity of knowing that his possessions were being thoroughly ransacked by the two marauders, whoever they were.
Nigel was out of his saddle in an instant, an instant of deadly peril, ransacked the man's doublet, took out a bulky letter, and sprang to horse again.
Cashel's papers must be ransacked throughout; it was very unlikely that he had taken an unusual care of it, so that Linton was far from supposing that this would present a serious difficulty.
In his anxiety on this bead, he ransacked drawers and cabinets with wild and furious haste, strewing their contents around him, or wantonly throwing them on the fire.
He ransackedthe whole apartment that lay before him in a mysterious twilight, with its luxurious appointments, its silken cushions and covers, its veiled mirrors and countless silver and ivory toilette articles.
Emanuel's was on the most intimate terms with my desk; that it raised and lowered the lid, ransacked and arranged the contents, almost as familiarly as my own.
They ransacked the world[4] for articles of food, preferring the rare and the costly to what was really palatable and delicate.
Beautiful effects were produced by combining marbles of different tints, and the Romans ransacked the world for striking colors.
I heard it sounding lustily, and I ransacked the barn on tiptoe to discover the new-made nest and the exultant mater-familias.
Beuve, who has ransacked the French Temple of Fame from garret to cellar for feuilleton materials; yet the "Legataire" kept a foothold on the stage for a hundred and twenty years.
Forcing his jaws agape, I gagged him with a towel, and afterwards ransacked his pockets.
I ransacked his private drawers and scattered their contents broadcast, I even overturned his heap of reference books.
When Edwin had ransacked his room, looked through his books, and softly struck a few chords on Christiane's piano, which Mohr had bought at the sale of her effects, he at last resolved to go home.
And now, since I can no longer see it with my bodily eyes, I feel as if barbarians had ransacked a temple which contained the most beautiful images and where I had often been disposed to devotion.
The rainbow and the seasons were ransacked for their hues, and every eye became the tributary of the great but abused talents of Pietro da Cortona, and the fascinating but debauched and empty facility of Luca Giordano.
Even Grub Street rubbed its eyes in amazement at the wonderful vision, andransacked its dictionaries for superlatives; and the poets, with one accord, struck their lyres to a new inspiration.
The good-natured fellow had ransacked the shops in Paris for such things as he thought would please his unknown cousins.
These, he had good reason to suppose, were ransacked in his absence.
The foundries of Russia were blazing in the manufacture of warlike weapons; and the workshops of Belgium were ransacked for the musket and rifle.
Suspecting the other would not be far distant, we then galloped to the sea-shore and ransacked the caves amongst the rocks, in one of which we came upon our friend, and also another who had taken refuge with him.
Eaton ransacked Alexandria in search, of Hamet the unfortunate but failed to find the truant.
It ransacked the prisons, and carried to the navy not only its victims but the germs of fever which infested public places of detention.
We immediately suspected that the inhabitants had acted in the same manner as those of Gavenki; and we questioned the women, and ransackedevery probable place, persuaded that they had concealed their provisions.
With Beniowsky at their head, they ransacked the country, massacring every one they met.
The prisoner has ransacked all Asia for principles of despotism; he has ransacked all the bad and corrupted part of it for tyrannical examples to justify himself: and certainly in no other way can he be justified.
They ransacked his house; they examined all his accounts, every paper that he had, in and out of prison.
The convent was ransacked everywhere; all the old rugs were soon monopolized, and divided amongst them; and even the old parchment records which had been left by the monks, were converted into covers for decency.
They got their stores into the house, which had evidently been ransacked by the rats after the flight of Mrs. Skinner, and four of the men took the two horses back to Hickleybrow.
But the disease soon revived, and we heard of rag-pickers having their baskets ransacked by zealous National Guards, who imagined that these receptacles might contain secret despatches or contraband ammunition.
La Roche ransacked the prisons, and, gathering thence a gang of thieves and desperadoes, embarked them in a small vessel, and set sail to plant Christianity and civilization in the West.
The garden of the Heberts, the only thrifty settlers, was ransacked for every root or seed that could afford nutriment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ransacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
