This "sacking the rear" takes most of the time, Fig.
Some stand at the heads of bars or islands, where with pike poles they shove off the logs that might stop there and form a jam; others follow "sacking the rear" to clean out such logs as may have become stranded.
The Arabs treated the city more harshly; it was in turn taken and destroyed by infidels and Christians; the former sacking frontier towns, the latter destroying all fortresses they could not hold.
Bands of these without a commander invaded Moorish territory, sacking and pillaging where they could.
Speechless with amazement, Reginald found himself gazing into the eyes of a man which were glaring at him out of a small slit in the sacking which completely covered him.
Bits of sacking would fly in all directions, streams of straw and sawdust would exude.
And the wild west wind that swept across the plain spared the little corner where he lay asleep, curled up in his sacking with the inside-out school cap, doubled twice, for pillow.
He lifted the sacking at one corner so that he could look out between the canvas of the cart's back and side, and hoped to see the classical master distractedly looking for him.
There was a piece of sacking lying on the road; it must have dropped from the carrier's cart.
He got into the crate, pulled the sacking over himself, and settled down to eat his bread.
There were boxes and packages of all sorts in the cart, and at the back an empty crate with sacking over it.
The united weights of the mistress and the maid coming down upon it with such emphasis, was more than the bed could bear--the sacking gave way altogether, and the mattress which they lay upon was now supported by the floor.
Footnote 347: Such an execution would be contrary to Moslem law: but people would look leniently upon the peccadillo of beheading or sacking a faithless wife.
It appears that the Jesuit kept a diary in which he had written the following commentary on the sacking of the Louvain library: ‘Vandalism worthy of Attila himself.
He addressed himself chiefly to Chris, who answered courteously; and described the sacking of the shrine at some length.
At the sacking of his palace, too, as the men ran from room to room tearing down the tapestries, and piling the plate together, a monk had found a great iron box hidden in a corner.
The street was very empty below him, for every human being that could do so had gone down to the sacking of the priory.
Other military successes followed, including the sacking of Opis and Kish, which assured the supremacy of Lagash for many years.
Then the letters were placed in baked clay envelopes, sealed and addressed, or wrapped in pieces of sacking transfixed by seals.
The sacking and burning of the temples of Lagash suggests as much.
And he gingerly lifted the folds of sacking from the ghastly object as it lay on the table, and then covered it up again.
To one side a few unhappy men, of note enough to have been spared, watched in grim silence the unlading of the spoils that came from the sacking of their palaces.
These men had fought with Alberic at the sacking of Verona; they knew that form, they had seen that face before.
I belonged to Della Scala's court, and barely escaped with life from the sackingof the town.
And Betty opened her arms, and Prince was tenderly lifted up, and a piece of sacking the farmer happened to have with him was wrapped round him.
The sacking was uncovered, and Prince's ears pricked up and his bright brown eyes sought his little mistress's face.
You've abandoned me and my army here in Stolgoland, and you're sacking Eglonsby.
While they were sacking the city, with all the usual atrocities, the Space Vikings were loading the gold, and anything else that was of more than ordinary value, aboard the ships.
He cursed himself considerably for his folly in not making sure, when the rescue party got down from the rocks on to the glacier, that the rope about the sacking was not working loose.
The lashing of the rope got loose as they dragged the body down the glacier, and suddenly it worked out of the sacking and slid swiftly past them down a steep slope of ice.
The restrained and dignified words in which our own Official Press Bureau made known the ruthless sacking of Louvain constitute a fearful indictment of German Militarism, which can give official sanction to such an appalling deed.
Mr. Asquith has described the sacking of Louvain as “the greatest crime committed against civilization and culture since the Thirty Years’ War.
This was the era of sacrilege; the sacking of the palace of the Archbishop of Paris had set the fashion of the destruction of religious houses.
Presently, we shall have to relate the story of the sacking of the church of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois and the profanation of the sacred contents.
An empty tin and a bundle of old letters rested on a rickety chair, and a piece of sacking was thrust through two broken panes in the small window opposite.
He used the sacking to block up the window, replenished the fire, set his coat to dry, and dragged his mattress from the bedroom to the front of the fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
