| 单词 | rapine |
| 例句 | "Your savages might relish a bit of rapine. Tell them they may ride with Vargo Hoat and plunder as they like— goods, stock, women, they may take what they want and bum the rest." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Joshua chapter, for example, amounts to a “history of rapine and murder, as savage and brutal as those recorded by his predecessor in villainy and hypocrisy.” The Bible should be X-rated: The Good Book is loaded with sexy sin – someone tell Mike Huckabee 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z “The second rapine,” a teacher wrote, “could use a comma as well!” Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “To deny the power would be to deny the right of the state . . . to suppress armed mobs bent on riot and rapine,” the court noted. Opinion | How our open carry laws can endanger democracy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z There were bayonetings of surrendered soldiers and mistreatment of prisoners of war and numerous instances of rapine. Opinion | George Washington’s story is worth revisiting this Fourth of July 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Those lands originally protected by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 may not survive Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's rapine behavior. Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But ever since the Susanna and the Elders of 1634, he had brooded on the relationship between carnal aggression, virtue, and sacrifice; between the rapine stare and the fatal touch; between sex and history. How Rembrandt dressed his women for death 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z They were not notice-boards and gates—they were the insulting tokens of invasion and rapine and defeat. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z In fact, the records of the time bear ample testimony to the rapine and violence, the flagrant crimes and defiant immorality of these princes of the Church. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z To crown his acts of rapine he stole the stone of a church of St. John near Smithfield. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z By plunder and rapine some have accumulated wealth, but many more are greatly injured in their circumstances. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z They come with murdering dirk in hand, Death, ruin, rapine in their train: To arms! rouse up and clear the land, Down with kingcraft, weeping Spain. Random Rhymes and Rambles 2012-03-21T02:00:31.003Z In the horrid saturnalia of pillage, destruction and rapine many a peaceful citizen was drawn into the vortex. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z He might outstrip the stream of rapine, he might carry the alarm; at worst he might reach his betrothed before harm befel her. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Suicide, rapine, disorder, drunkenness, and boredom permeate nearly every page. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z He had in his custody about four thousand pounds in specie, which could not be removed so secretly as to elude the espionage of eyes intent on rapine and plunder. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z He shows it in its true colors as multitudinous murder and rapine. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z And among the other scattered evidences of rapine there were the remains of human beings—skeletons, separate bones. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z It is filled with rapine and murder, and pestilence stalks through it unchecked. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z The struggle with the Philistines was not a matter of rapine and plunder, but of freedom and independence. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z The truculent, bloody Saxon! who has left his track like a livid welt across our land, in altars polluted and laid low, pledges made and broken, a long trail of lust and rapine and crime.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Bagenal Harvey, who commanded in conjunction with Father Roche, despatched a flag of truce, imploring the garrison not to provoke rapine by useless resistance. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Plunder, rapine, and devastation followed in the trail of the adventurers who fought their way across Panama and conquered Peru. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z Nothing, save rapine, indolence, and guile, And woes on woes, a still revolving train! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Let Justice with the faultless scales Hold fast the worship of thy sons, Thy commerce spread her shining sails Where no dark tide of rapine runs. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z His character appears to have been a strange combination of bravery and chivalry, a love of rapine, and a fantastic vanity. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z To repel the attacks of so formidable a foe, and protect our families and property from violence and rapine, will require more strength than we possess. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z “With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow, If bleak and barren Scotia’s hills arise; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow, Here peaceful are the vales and pure the skies.” Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The hired assassins of the priesthood having no other motives than rapine and slaughter, inundated the factory with the hope of securing plunder and wreaking revenge. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z If rapine be abolished, one of the encouragements to war is taken away; and peace, therefore, more likely to continue and be lasting. The Life of Benjamin Franklin Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes 2012-01-04T03:00:46.617Z It was a mere contest of petty rapine in which strange princes parcelled out Italy; which can scarcely be said to have concerned Great Britain, and Pitt not at all. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Cowardice and idleness were the most heinous crimes; a life of rapine and a violent death were passports to the sacred mountain. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The industry of the freemen was rapine: the slaves were the producers. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He who by rapine desires the things that he beholds with his eyes without, is a kite, not a dove at his windows. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Whether it be by barbaric rapine, or reluctant acceptance of duty through carefully contrived diplomacy, Man takes. We're Civilized! 2011-12-15T03:00:16.297Z Both armies, prompted either by fancied military necessity or malice, burned or confiscated valuable forage crops and other stores, and nearly every locality, at one time or another, witnessed depredation, robbery, murder, arson and rapine. Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck 2011-11-26T03:00:16.703Z If there be vice or rapine, oppression or murder, the purely Christian conscience is absolved. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Nevertheless, the Garrisonian movement was erroneously interpreted at the South as an attempt to incite slave insurrection with the attendant horrors of rapine and bloodshed. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z And wallowing his grim length within the flood, Over the ravaged fields and homeless homes, The fell sea-monster raged, sating his jaws With blood and rapine. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z Many a morn in shelter he took them napping; After killing was the rieving and rapine. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Himself, too, had set the example of suppressing monasteries, though he did this not for mere rapine or to gorge his parasites, but to turn useless and abused endowments to a noble use. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Vanity as the Greatest Utility.—Originally the strong individual uses not only Nature but even societies and weaker individuals as objects of rapine. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z All "powerfully contributed" to by murder, rapine, theft and starvation. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Why hast thou showed me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z As the armies were far below the strength required by the policy of unbounded conquest and rapine, the first permanent law of conscription was passed in the summer of 1798. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Then rapine, violence, assassination, sedition, massacre—everything that can render life and property insecure—will distract every state, city and village in the Union. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z It is introduced by some comments on the King's speech, which concludes with a quotation of Smollett's fearful description of the massacres and rapine which followed the defeat of the Stuarts at Culloden in 1746. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z To a thirst for blood he added the appetite of a glutton; and, having amassed enormous wealth by murder and rapine, he longed for the opportunity to expend his ill-gotten means in idleness and debauchery. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z But that glory is but the gilded shell that hides the hideous kernel, consisting of sorrow, misery, murder, and rapine. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Property, liberty,—nay, even life itself, were deemed toys in the hands of Mr. Pitt, whose passions seemed to centre in rapine, enmity, and ambition. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z It is like the tides, which wait not our bidding to rise or fall, but which leave us free to launch wisdom and industry, or folly and rapine, upon their waters. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z You have no grievance, but the love of rapine and warfare is the ruling passion, and you must take a hand against the Great Father, whom your treaty binds you to obey and honor. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z All Northmen were not bent on rapine and plunder; many were peaceful merchants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Fortunately we had a large body of Cossacks; and these rascals are never surprised; and no kind of experience comes amiss to them, so long as they have a chance of plunder and rapine. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Nearly three hundred years have the European nations traded with Africa in human flesh, and encouraged in the negro countries, wars, rapine, desolation, and murder. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z The Portuguese, not many years ago, laid aside and confined Alphonsus their king, for his rapines and murders. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z Their "rapine and pillage" adherents desired to begin work. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z In the lawless ages of rapine and violence she stood between the tyrant and his victim, and restrained the excesses of feudalism by the sword of her spiritual authority. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 2011-07-30T02:00:17.553Z What must they not have suffered, those unhappy people, during those ten years of violence and rapine! The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z Scene after scene of rapine followed each other so rapidly that the march seemed one long panorama of destruction. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z From these points parties went forth, gathering about them profligate ruffians, and roamed the state indulging in rapine, and ready to put patriots to death as outlaws. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Apparently peaceable and harmless, theirs is but the guile of the red Indian or the dark-souled Hindoo, biding his time until the hour comes for murder and rapine. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z God pity and help the residents of any town given up to the ruthless passions of a fierce soldiery—to plunder and rapine and murder,—after what is so inadequately described as "taking by storm"! The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z The expedition against Denmark was therefore deferred; but the outlaws incessantly ravaged the Danish coasts--burning Middelfert and Hindsholm in Funen, and visiting nearly every seaport town in Denmark with blood and rapine. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Like an echo of Dante's "Infernal hurricane that never rests, Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; Whirling them round." Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z In the spring of 1781 Cornwallis transferred his forces to Petersburg, and Arnold was sent to Connecticut to conduct a campaign of rapine. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Aloof, and frighted, stood her coward train, And saw a furious band of desperate slaves, Inur'd to blood and rapine, bear her off. The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts 2011-07-03T02:00:12.153Z Every article of human wealth has certain conditions attached to its merited possession, which, when they are unobserved, possession becomes rapine. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z It was by the algrev's help, then; and not at all from true affection, but from pride and a love of rapine. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z A wild country, a wandering population, and distance from executive restraints, may, in any case, bring natural ferocity to a harvest of violence and rapine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The back country of Virginia was also a scene of massacre and rapine. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It is only to be regretted that their benevolent efforts are almost constantly paralysed by the rapine and insatiable cupidity of their stewards and agents. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The great incentive to violence and rapine with the Indians was whisky. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z But Clifford Castle is not associated merely with ideas of war and rapine, but with those of love and beauty. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z Is it not a succession of deeds of cruelty, of rapine, of pillage, of wanton destruction? Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z You say I have described a conspiracy now existing in Ireland as marching through rapine to the break-up of the United Kingdom. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Some extraordinary circumstances may happen, in which a man finds his interests to be more promoted by fraud or rapine, than hurt by the breach which his injustice makes in the social union. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z With a loud shout of anger Raymond rushed upon the two men, who were totally unprepared for any onslaught while engaged in their work of cruelty and rapine. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Chief of an army that he had made irresistible, not by honour but by glory, and master of wealth by rapine, Bonaparte imposed his will upon the Directory, which he provided with funds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z With that she hastily left the chapel—as I learnt afterwards, to try and stay as much as possible the fierce bloodshed and rapine of the soldiery. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Ribourt had brought the dismissal of the governor, La Richerie, former governor of Cayenne, who by dint of rapine had made a great fortune in New Caledonia. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Such razzia and rapine were but the ordinary incidents of their life, the tactics of their calling, and they were accustomed to execute them with the most subtle skill and celerity. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z And for myself, though I was as ready for murder and rapine as any, yet was I given pause; and hearing my lord’s whisper at my elbow, I turned and looked at him. The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2011-04-19T02:00:15.690Z I was soon to become, as it were, an accomplice in the work of rapine and bloodshed. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z But somehow, like eels getting used to be skinned, one begins nowadays to get indifferent to carnage and rapine, and to think that grape and canister are among the compliments of the season. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Forty years of savage rapine had laid a severe embargo upon civilization, and no picture of France in 1625 can be complete without a glance at the background of 1575. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Ye gods! 'inferior' with never a camp follower to their name, and rapine unknown even after the fiercest fight! A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z It consisted of Romulus’ own troop, and a confluence of banditti inured to lawless acts, and subsisting by rapine, who were called from their fastnesses by the proclamation of a bold, cunning, and hardy adventurer67. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The chief objects of this pillage were the statues and pictures of the gods, which the Romans regarded with religious veneration; and they, accordingly, viewed such rapine as sacrilege. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z You have made a very bad sermon on impurity—oh, Bourdaloue!—but none on these murders, varied in so many ways; on these rapines and robberies; on this universal rage which devours the world. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The predatory bands engaged in Kansas in acts of rapine, under cover of existing political disturbances, were arrested or dispersed, the troops were withdrawn, and tranquillity was once more restored to the hitherto agitated territory. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z A very saturnalia of riot and rapine followed the capture of Bristol. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The illusions to which the spirit of rapine is so much exposed may give birth to an enterprize of depredation; apprehensions of any such event entertained here would necessarily give birth to preparations of defence. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z They lived splendidly on the produce of their rapines; but yet there were doubtless some beggars at Rome. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z You will tell me that this first monster has sowed the seed of pride, rapine, fraud, and cruelty, which is in all men. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Out of the treacherous stillness of the woods a brief horror of carnage, rapine, and fire burst upon the sleeping hamlet. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z This was a memorable scene, but I was to witness many a one like it in those days of rapine and of pillage to come. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Four separate edicts, each surpassing in vehemence the earlier decrees, were issued against the believers; and for a period of ten years they were the victims of unrestrained rapine, spoliation and torture. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z A pirate makes war for the sake of rapine. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z The absolution and reinstatement of one who is guilty of sacrilege, robbery, burning, rapine, perjury, and the like, is taxed at thirty-six tournois, nine ducats. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z It is probable, from this preponderance of the savage element in its composition, that the real purpose of the expedition was the rapine which it so successfully accomplished. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z Even the Imperial edict against pillage and rapine was useless to prevent this spoliation. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z The fairy says that kings and parasites arose— From vice, black loathsome vice: From rapine, madness, treachery, and wrong. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Yours, therefore is a war of rapine; of course, a piratical war; and those who approve of it, and are engaged in it, more justly deserve the name of pirates, which you bestow on me. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z We give Thee praise that Thou hast lit The torch and fanned the flame; That lust and rapine hunt their prey, Kind Father, in Thy name! Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z That was his last sight of the summer sky that has smiled down on so many a deed of blood and rapine. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Each marauding community is marked by a wild independence; and the free spirit of the whole is to be traced in the rapine, discord, and bloodshed which universally prevails. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Rather it was a drama of untamed passions and bloodshed, strife and carnage and lust and rapine; and it didn't, unfortunately, have a particularly happy ending. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z The first wrong which won him his kinsman's heritage had placed him almost inevitably among the beasts of prey, and made his dwelling a den of rapine. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z And now that breath of Northern gale Has fanned the Stars and Bars, And footstep of invader rude, With rapine foul, and red with blood, Us rights and liberty debars. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z "The dogs of war" were loosed upon the helpless Saints, and murder and rapine held high carnival amid the smoking ruins of peaceful homes and ravaged fields. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z The massive towers are now defending a barren rock; the enclosure which had seen so many days of war and rapine was lying open and deserted; the whole population was gone long centuries ago. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z You will be horrified to discover on every page the most barefaced apology for violence, rapine, and crime. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z There were scarcely found for the functions of monatti and apparitori any, but those over whom the attraction of rapine and licence had more sway than dread of the contagion. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Their acts of rapine and cruelty transcend description. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z No disorder, rapine, or outrage upon women is laid to the charge of the Puritan army in Ireland. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The memories of rapine and violence were still there. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z They will push their quarrels to extremities, and make them up in an hour, when the demon of rapine points to an object for common plunder. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Discussion was to them only a stage on the way to rapine and murder. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z That apparently invincible German army strode ruthlessly through Belgium, leaving fire and rapine and death in its track. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War Hostile invasion came first in the form of the Northmen, whose piracy and rapine extended to Ireland as well as to Gaul and Britain. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z They are among the most successful and to their prey the most formidable beasts of rapine in the world. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Wherefore," continued the Zegri, speaking rapidly, but with broken accents,—"when I had resolved to fly to the pagans, as being men whom, I thought, God had commissioned me to defend from rapine and slavery. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Cutting themselves off from their bases of supply, and relying upon an alliance of miracle and rapine to sustain them, their triumphant campaigns were one continuous and colossal Sherman's march to the sea. The Ifs of History The new masters of Malta made themselves odious to the people of the island by their reckless pillage and rapine, so that the French name has ever been held in abhorrence by them. The Story of Malta In the spring of 1781 Virginia was the scene of murder, rapine and ruin. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Animal life from beginning to end is a record of rapine and slaughter, as Tennyson declared in a verse too trite to bear quotation. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer There they found twelve great chests full of treasure, which same Sir Godwin had gathered by murder and robbery and rapine. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions He can tell of those stupendous waves of crusadic fanaticism in the course of which the pillage and rapine of utterly lawless hordes brought undying disgrace upon Europe. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The thought of a village girl picking bilberries in a land so scarred by war and rapine produced an effect at once striking and fantastic. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Fire, sword, murder, rapine, ruin and destruction marked their savage course. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The object of the hill Gitanos was pure plunder, but they would think nothing of bloodshed, and would doubtless give the whole palace and town over to rapine and pillage. The Firebrand But in the rapine and tumult of the middle ages the right of sanctuary might as often be a shield to innocence as an immunity to crime. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The men were dragged from their houses and hung, the women and children turned without food or raiment into the wilderness, and political vengeance seemed to gorge itself to gluttony upon its own rapine. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency A well-defined section of the little town was given up to murder, and loot, and fire, and rapine. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Plunder, rapine and murder were the order of the day. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Then the old story, Older than Adam,— Treachery, rapine, Ingratitude, bloodshed, Wrought by the strong man On unsuspecting And gentler brothers. Later Poems Again, though it cannot be said that lawless rapine was perfectly restrained even at the end of the fifteenth century, a sensible amendment had been every where experienced. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 "Your fields!" exclaimed Rosen-A�r with bitterness; "you should rather say the fields that your soldiers seized by force and rapine, the inseparable companions of conquest." The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess The sailor still repeats or listens to them with shuddering interest, and in those times of rapine and blood, this port was notorious as a rendezvous for these robbers of the sea. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. His career on the mainland was one of crime and rapine. The Spanish Pioneers The story of Spain in America is one long, frightful record of massacre, cruelty, greed, and rapine. The Greater Republic A History of the United States They had rendered themselves the horror of the Jerseys, by rapine, brutality, and heartlessness. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools I had been the means of introducing into Count Rudolpho's grounds a band of desperadoes, to whom bloodshed was familiar; and I doubted not that they were at their work of blood and rapine. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 They were bent upon rapine and slaughter—and what greater prize than the Queen herself? Quest of the Golden Ape At last the people were again fairly roused, until there came a war of extermination, in which both parties tried to outvie the other in murder and rapine. The West Indies and the Spanish Main They often made war upon each other, the consequences of which were frequently awful in the streams of blood which flowed, and the murder, rapine, and spoliation which ensued. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards Aversion to toil and a sedentary life, the love of pillage and rapine, cruelty, unnatural debaucheries, are the vices which have been generally attributed to the Mongol Tartars. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Fresh bursts of applause replied to the pleasantry of Banaias, and Jesus resumed: 'Woe to you, Pharisees! woe to you who cleanse the outside of the cup while within it is all rapine and impurity.' The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth It is fitted, like Guizot's Lectures on History, to illustrate the incalculable advantage which arose, in an age of general rapine and unsettled government, from the sway, the disinterestedness, and even the superstitions, of religion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 And he filled his pits with prey, And his dens with rapine. The Bible Story They quartered themselves on the peaceful inhabitants of the country, and obtained full compensation for loss of pay by a system of rapine and extortion that beggared the people, and drove them to desperation. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 But rapine, corruption, extortion, intolerance, and persecution were all soon to be revived under the restored dynasty of the Stuarts. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Men of blood, of battle, and of rapine.' The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth The bloodshed and the attendant miseries which the unparalleled rapine and cruelties of the Spaniards spread over the new world, indeed disgrace human nature. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Woe to the City of Blood, All of her guile, robbery full, ceaseless rapine! The Bible Story The two thieves, it was remarked, were spared, as if to preside over the work of rapine below. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Previously keeps and castles were lairs of rapine and of brutes, conditions which chivalry and the Courts of Love remodelled. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The Figure called to mind a beast of prey 125 Stript of its frightful powers by slow decay, And, though no longer upon rapine bent, Dim memory keeping of its old intent. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) The horrid massacres and unbounded rapine which, according to their own annals, followed the victories of their Asian conquerors were never equalled by the worst of their European vanquishers. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Theirs was less war than rapine; but what could you expect? Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Now we find the Cartouchian villanies revived, and London, that used to be the most safe and peaceful city in the universe, is now a scene of rapine and danger. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe At a time when the chief relaxation of a baron was rapine, he preferred the conversation of thinkers. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Now we find the Cartouchian villanies revived, and London, that used to be the most safe and peaceful city in the universe, is now become a scene of rapine and danger. Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies Every species of assassination was the policy of their courts, and every act of unrestrained rapine and massacre followed the path of victory. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Tell them, too, the sad mistake we made by attempting to organise what never can be disciplined, and let them not arm a population, as we have done, to commit rapine and plunder.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The bloodshed and rapine were carried into the city of Rome itself. Roman Women An English dramatic author, hurried in his rapine, could hardly have adapted a French speech more clumsily than it has been done for our papers. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) In those days of violence and rapine, it was of great importance to impress upon savage minds the sanctity of an oath, by some particular and extraordinary circumstances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 All the rapine and carnage committed by the Gothic conquerors were now amply returned on their less warlike posterity. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem It is true, Master Con," whispered she, "that these treasures have an odor of rapine; but let us see if the Church cannot purify them. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas As soon as they have drained one town or village, they take up their quarters in another, living entirely upon rapine and plunder. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment The pictures are not the fruit of rapine and confiscation, or the collection might have been more extensive and valuable. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The only men of action here are they with whom no man of honor, no soldier, could associate; their only daring, some deed of rapine and murder. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I With honest indignation he rebukes the rapine of commanders and the errors and unworthy resentments of kings. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Coward! save where shame And rapine call thee! Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses Indeed, by less cruel parents these poor babes are thought but incumbrances to a flying and marauding force, whose motto is rapine, where the arm of resistance dare be put forth. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Murder and rapine follows; then the troops are sent, who punish indiscriminately, in order to strike terror into the people. The Red Symbol The Greek woman and her lover guessed the destruction and rapine that were taking place. Sónnica The course of human things, however, soon took place, and the sword of victory and power soon became the sword of tyranny and rapine. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The popular idea supposes the Ku Klux movement to have been conceived in malice, and nursed by prejudice and hate, for lawlessness, rapine and murder. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment I had seen the rapine of camps, the iniquities of a great city; but this action of Jacques Haret’s shone hideous alongside all I had ever known. Francezka The "Lion of Poitiers" earned his name by reason of his carnivorous taste for rapine and flesh dripping blood. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It was as if the besiegers had already broken into the city and had carried off everything of worth, leaving nothing but the buildings behind as silent witnesses to their rapine. Sónnica It was not his army which was so terrible, but the horde of guerrilla bands, which rushed out like venomous serpents after a warm rain, intent upon rapine, outrage and murder. The Struggle for Missouri They were the gathering points for all the gold and treasure of space and we of the Compact took what we wished of it, leaving a trail of blood and rapine behind us. The Peacemaker Vanity led me to commit acts of rapine, that I might live in splendor; vanity makes me commit self-murder, because I will not live in poverty. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales One survived the toil and peril, One was sacrificed to rapine. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. They spared no pains, then, to impress upon the Hindu population that neither their temples nor their wives and daughters would be safe from the rapine and lust of the barbarians of Central Asia. Rulers of India: Akbar Rebel leaders had risen in various quarters, some of them making more progress than Choo, but winning the execration rather than the love of the people by their rapine and violence. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The Phœnicians and Greeks were especially apt in the interstate wars which frequently degenerated into rapine and plunder, and with them piracy became a recognized enterprise. Pirates and Piracy In one of my sons vanity was the cause of rapine, injustice, extravagance, ruin, self-murder. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Why these countries given over to pride, these States devoted to rapine, these peoples to whom is taught murder, as if murder were their duty? Pierre and Luce For several months the Chouans continued their petty warfare, which was disgraced by many acts of ferocity and rapine; in August 1795 they dispersed; but they were guilty of several conspiracies up to 1815. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Every atom of creation was against every other atom, because everywhere was warfare, murder and rapine, for the mere chance of living. Old Crow Conquest and rapine, the uniform aim of her actions, never permitted her, even at her utmost intellectual development, to comprehend the equal rights of all men in the eye of the law. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition One who had grown wealthy by rapine and oppression, but had contrived to keep within the letter of the law, insulted a poor fellow as a thief, because he had stolen a loaf of bread. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Who will voice the sufferings of the peoples delivered over to rapine during colonial enterprises? The Forerunners For more than three hundred years, the history of England is an almost continuous record of anarchy and rapine. A Comparative Study of the Negro Problem The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 4 After calling the Bull of Adrian IV. "the stumbling-block and the despair of Catholic historians," he proceeded to say:— Are Catholics filled with perplexity at the sight of infallibility sanctioning rapine? The History of Freedom Dire rumors of fire, rapine, and pillage preceded the approach of the Federal army, and it may well be supposed that these rumors spread consternation in the air. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches The huge mural became a panorama of rapine. Telempathy At one time dirt, at another indecency, at another rapine, at a fourth rancorous malignity, is decked out and accredited in the garb of sanctity. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature There was less war than rapine; but what could you expect? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. I pass'd this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; The sons of public rapine were destroying. Venice Preserved A Tragedy His long career of cruelty and rapine was rapidly coming to an end. The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold I know there are many who think the atmosphere of rapine, rebellion, and misery which wraps the lower orders of Europe more closely every day, is as natural a phenomenon as a hot summer. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Ten captains at the head of as many bands of soldiers, ruled the city, and were foremost in the work of murder and rapine that now ensued. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 It has been twenty-five hundred years of war, of rapine, murder and measureless lust. Why I Preach the Second Coming They are not cunning, nor evildoers, but follow the customs of the Huns in sacking and rapine. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia He wanted to be free to sell full privileges of rapine and murder to Jacaro. The Fifth-Dimension Tube Months rolled on under the terrible dominion of these uncontrollable miscreants, while the length and the breadth of the land were scourged by their cruelty, polluted by their lust, and desolated by their rapine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 Such was the new gospel of blood and rapine with which it was proposed to replace the Bible in the vernacular, and the Psalms of David translated by Marot and Beza! History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 And would carnal lust and rapine again drench fair Colombia with the blood of her misguided sons? Carmen Ariza No people would be free from their rapine, no woman safe from their lust. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures Over two hundred traders with their servants fell victims to his remorseless march of slaughter and rapine, and goods estimated at over half a million dollars became the spoils of the confederated tribes. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The British possession of Malta originated in one of those singular events by which short-sightedness and rapine are often made their own punishers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Now began a scene of rapine and bloodshed that might demand detailed mention, were it not that at the frequent repetition of such ghastly recitals the stoutest heart sickens. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 Theft and rapine are regarded in times of peace as crimes, but in time of war, under the form of annexation and plunder they are the uncontested rights of the victor. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But the penalty of refusing it was the prophet's wrath, with its terrible attendants, war and rapine, and none of the Arabs cared enough for their old gods to brave such terrors for their sake. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems They now see before them servile insurrections which torment their imaginations; murder, rapine, and bloodshed, now dance before their affrighted visions. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 But a spot without a tree, without a mine, and without a manufacture, could never have possessed solid wealth under the languid industry and wild rapine of an Arab population. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 At Mans the fanatical bishop was the chief instigator of a work of mingled murder and rapine. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 In some cases the deprived proprietors, in their turn carried away by this insanity of rapine, even go over themselves to the assailing party, and carry their own honey to the house of the bandits. The Industries of Animals Who endeavored to force slavery on Kansas by murder and rapine, and the forgery of a constitution? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It was necessary for Cortez and his followers to paint the character of the Aztecs in darkest hues to palliate and excuse, in a measure, their own wholesale rapine and murder. Aztec Land Let not the people know that violence and rapine walk hand-in-hand with my administration. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule With old hand embracing old hand they sat staring at the rapine of the lightning, the tigerish atrocity that had butchered and mutilated their beloved trees. In a Little Town The latter, in order to seize the prey which he desires, needs much more varied resources than the great bird of rapine for whom nature has done everything. The Industries of Animals I even seemed to hear them denouncing Malcolmson as one of those who march through rapine and bloodshed to the dismemberment of an Empire. The Red Hand of Ulster He would betray Morgan, yet a flash of his old admiration for the man came into his mind as he licked his lips like a wolf and thought of the days of rapine. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Individuals, leaving the forts on any occasion, scarcely ever returned; but were, almost always, intercepted by Indians, who were constantly prowling along the border settlements, for purposes of 87 rapine and murder. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Plunder, rapine, and luxury took the place of duty performed. The Life of Cicero Volume II. It would only be a repetition of the same tale of rapine, plunder, murder, and devastation. Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series "To rob for burnt offerings, and to lie for God, is a greater disservice to His Majesty than to rob for rapine or lie for advantage." From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services But in another quarter, from the very beginning of Valentinian's reign, Africa had been overrun by the fury of the barbarians, intent on bloodshed and rapine, which they sought to carry on by audacious incursions. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Injustice, violence, and rapine, prevailed everywhere, because there was nobody that had either power enough to restrain them, or sufficient authority to punish the offenders. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) With murder for man and rapine for woman where man alone is maker and guardian of the laws, it behooves him to pause ere he launches invectives at the one result of woman's votes. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III I imagine, indeed, that they originate for the most part in that principle, developed in vendetta, though degenerating into rapine and robbery. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The troops were drunk with victory and rapine. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The cavalry, under Theodosius, its captain, was appointed to lead the way ... was inconvenienced by the great noise made by his men; whom his repeated commands could not restrain from rapine and incendiarism. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Nothing was attended to but rapine, feasting, and diversions. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) No rapine swell'd thy state, no bribes, nor fees, Our new oppressors' best annuities. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II It is satisfactory to know that the biggest of the home libraries is within stone's throw of Corlear's Hook, which the "Hook Gang" terrorized with rapine and murder within my recollection. The Battle with the Slum "But the die was cast; Ruthless rapine righteous hope defied." Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century What a scene! when rapine, stimulated by hunger, has broken down all screens, confounded the rich with the poor, and leveled the freeman with his slave! Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject And behold, also, by the hands of the ungodly righteous punishment has been dealt unto the sticks and stones that have long given to rapine most unworthy shelter. The Buccaneer A Tale Terror, death, and rapine walked abroad in triumph, and the diabolical spirits which had set the mischief afoot, hovered over the bloody spectacle and mocked at the misery which they had created. Celebration in Baltimore of the Triumph of Liberty in France Outcasts from honor, and fugitives from debt; gamblers and felons; miscreants, whose dreams are of rapine, murder, and conflagration! Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Night is, in fact, their true time for rapine and desperate deeds. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Notwithstanding, what is their life and religion but incessant murder, robbery, rapine and other horrible outrages? Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Bitter animosities existed between the adherents of the papal church and the reformers, which found expression in bloodshed, rapine, and destruction of property. History of Education In a flash he tramped across forests, sack and battle and rapine new painted themselves upon his brain; deeds long dead and forgotten suddenly became instant agonies. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel At the same moment a blood-red flag streamed out over the taffrail and soared away aloft, until it fluttered out from the gaff-end—a fit emblem of rapine and murder. The Voyage of the Aurora I have no wish to repeat Blackburn's terrible stories of rapine and bestiality, of the frenzy of intoxication, and the blind savagery of these Saturnalias. The Message From the red fields of gore, ’midst war’s dreadful clang, I hear a sad strain o’er oceans afar: Oh, shame, shame upon you, ye proud men of England, Whose highest ambition is rapine and war! Revised Edition of Poems This vast gain is effected without the conquest or partitioning of the territory of any neighboring nation, and without rapine or the confiscation of property already accumulated by others. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The times were most terrible about then; murder, robbery and rapine were of daily occurrence, and the whole country was subject to visitations by marauding parties from both armies. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 By their rapine, cruelty, and discord the petty tyrants of Persia might afflict their subjects; but whole nations were crushed under the footsteps of the reformer. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 It is all full of lies and rapine; The prey departeth not. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Men are not given to acts of atrocious brutality, to frightful rage, or to wanton rapine, without the existence of some cause for their proceedings. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And the cries of children at the breast all bloody resound, and there is rapine sister of pell-mell confusion. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes Your subversion of the Constitution of 1824, your establishment of centralism, your conquest of Zacatecas, characterized by every act of violence, cruelty, and rapine, inflicted upon us the profoundest astonishment. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader It was a reign of terror during which rapine and murder stalked unhindered through the land, and young women fled to the remotest districts where they might claim a shelter. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow They had neither race, nor creed, nor aspirations, but only an unhallowed lust for the fruits of rapine. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter This is probable, that the situation of Rome was favorable in ancient times for rapine, even if it were not a healthy locality. Ancient States and Empires Cressy and Poitiers carried the military fame of England throughout the world, and struck terror into her enemies; but at home dwelt turbulence, corruption, rapine, and misery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Every article of human wealth has certain conditions attached to its merited possession; when these are unobserved, possession becomes rapine. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Their tales were a long catalogue of deeds of ruthless barbarity, cold-blooded cruelty, lust, and rapine. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Darkness swooped down on the prairie, and it is the darkness that suits rapine best; now, that he could see the trail no longer, he shook the bridle, and the pace grew faster. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter Residing here, you could hold the sons of rapine at bay, enjoying at once your American harvests, and the golden remittances of your publishers in England. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. A monk himself, he had no scruples in tearing off the priestly robe that covered lust and rapine. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 He was not a mere savage of the ordinary type, bloodthirsty, brutal beyond description, going upon one aimless raid after another to glut his passion for rapine and murder. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The benignant laws of the Incas were replaced by the rapine of the conquerors. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Chung Wang's energy and military skill alone sustained their cause, but the lovers of rapine and turbulence flocked in their thousands to his standard. The Life of Gordon, Volume I Their property, the honor of their women, and their lives were held to be the legitimate spoil of any Spanish soldier, and the tacit legalization of loot, rapine, and murder was taken full advantage of. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 I have offended you by checking your rapine. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Such is the spirit begotten of that ten years' war in the character of Ulysses, a spirit of violence and rapine, totally unfitted for a civilized life, at bottom negative to Family and State. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The contagion of murder, arson, and rapine spread over the whole area of country on which the Indians lived and roved, embracing a district one hundred miles in width by two hundred in length. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The most powerful tribes, in this stage of their intellect, usually live by rapine, and under the influence of vivid, but contracted, religious imagination. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 The Dangerous Classes.—The existence of considerable classes, chiefly of foreigners, who are contemplating murder and rapine, should interest every good citizen. Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 Fire and sword, war and rapine, desolation and atrocity, perpetrated upon a high-spirited and generous people, cannot conduce to the best moral condition. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America It is on the very self same miserable principle, that some have thought to atone for a life of injustice and rapine by the strictness of their religious observances. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. It was liberty he wanted, not rapine, and he did his utmost to restrain his lawless followers from acts of violence. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Resistance having almost ceased, Sulla broke into the famous old city March 1, 86 B.C., and gave it up to rapine and pillage by his soldiers. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality “But,” say you, “those who have got riches by rapine, are still in possession of them.” The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes When retaliating it was with the knowledge that their own lands would be exposed to rapine. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Once the rightful heir, now a beggar, in these domains, wrested from me by rapine and the harpy fangs of injustice misnamed law. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Spartacus would still have fought his way towards the Alps but for his followers, whose impatient thirst for rapine forced him to march southward again. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The king, while fully acknowledging Clive's services, thought him guilty of "rapine," and disapproved of his virtual acquittal. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration The peasants in many instances had no other alternative than to fly to the mountains for safety, and lead a wretched existence by rapine and murder. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They are like children who delight in a "bluggy" story,—who gloat over murder and rapine. The Uncalled A Novel The next war that broke out between the mother countries spread rapine and destruction over the colonial frontiers, without any real result beyond mutual injury and embittered hatred. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) Passing from tribe to tribe, he eloquently depicted their wrongs, roused them to revenge, pointed out the defenceless state of the whites, and worked on their passions by promises of blood and rapine. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Was it a spirit of blind submission to Shamyl and their religious leaders, or an unreasoning hatred of infidels, or a thirst for plunder and rapine? Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science The infernal hurricane that never rests carries along the spirits with its rapine; whirling and smiting it molests them. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The rapine and violence which the barbarians exercised against the ancient inhabitants interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country; the towns were deserted and the country was left uncultivated. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics As might have been expected, there were always plenty of renegade and ruffianly white men eager to enter into his service, in which they could give full fling to their instincts of rapine and licentiousness. The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 They drove men into battle by fear of the guillotine; they formed rapine and destruction into a system, and perverted to their detestable purposes all the talents and ingenuity derived from the civilization around them. William Pitt and the Great War A few acts of unobserved rapine as trifling as these may easily occasion some signal disaster. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. It shows that even such a savage chief as this—one who lives by rapine and violence—has his natural feelings hidden somewhere in his heart.” In the Mahdi's Grasp These latter, let me plead in extenuation of my own sins, already were pirates, and set upon rapine. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Through all this mighty wood they rove With varied cries from grove to grove On rapine bent they wander here: But O, dismiss thy causeless fear.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse In truth, all that part of the Jerseys held by the enemy had been given up to indiscriminate rapine and plunder. The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 The Tories with whom Clarke was familiar were guilty of murder, rapine, pillage, and incendiarism. Stories Of Georgia This fundamental fact, which tends to unite a dislike of productive labor with impulses towards rapine, causes them to make use of all those surrounding causes which prepare the external means for crime. Spontaneous Activity in Education After a life of war and sometimes of rapine, done under the genius of his day, he had struck boldly the last chord on an iron string. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive The Indians could not now be seen through the cracks, nor could their voices be heard, and the fire-besieged fugitives supposed they had gone to new fields of blood and rapine. Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People The desolation of the Jerseys was one of the consequences of this spirit of rapine. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 How should order be maintained in the lower mass, half-brutalized, whom slavery had at least restrained from vagabondage, rapine, and crime? The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The iron sceptre which he and his successors wielded was imbrued in blood; and discipline alone was the politics of his soldiers, and rapine their resources. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Nor were the pirates unaided in their work of rapine. The Story of Rouen Though the work of rapine and death was still going on in the settlement, they did not heed it. Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People Without knowledge of history and political science we could have no permanent tranquility and peace, but should pass a precarious existence, exposed to war and violence, rapine and revolution. Practical Ethics In a word, the most apparent justifications for the reactionary legislation,—danger of rapine and outrage from emancipated barbarians, and a failure of the essential supply of labor—proved alike groundless. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement But the iniquities he had practised excited great indignation among those statesmen who regarded justice and humanity as better supports to a government than violence and rapine. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Lo! from the dark Came waggish fauns, and nymphs, and satyrs stark, With dancing and loud revelry,–and went Swifter than centaurs after rapine bent.– Endymion A Poetic Romance The slaves took the city and engaged in rapine and murder. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The framed photograph of his wife and daughters on his desk and his respectful references to women indicated he was not the type of soldier who lusts for rapine. Greener Than You Think The slaughter and rapine practised by the Sudanese Mahdists disgusted the Sennussi and drew from their chief words of scathing condemnation. The New World of Islam If men like Tallien and Foucher, monsters gorged with blood and rapine, triumph, France is overwhelmed in a welter of crime and infamy ... The Gods are Athirst To refrain immediately from that species of rapine and murder which has improperly been softened by the name of the African trade. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 They are, in truth, the tigers of the insect world, and their whole lives are devoted to bloodshed and rapine. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Just the night for thieves and murderers; just the night for those intent on rapine and burning! The Day of Wrath There is no pillage or rapine or bashing. Nights in London One act of resolution might have stayed the disorder at the first, but no man was found resolute enough to perform the act; and rapine, raging unchecked, became more audacious and more dangerous. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III We all know that without uprightness, without self-respect, without sympathy and mutual aid, human kind must perish, as perish the few races of animals living by rapine, or the slave-keeping ants. The Conquest of Bread The vicinity had previously been unoccupied by either army, and rapine had as yet appropriated only the fields for camps and the fences for fuel. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Is it lust, rapine, murder, you desire to commit? Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany Ten thousand Spaniards still surrounded the walls, and at any moment might break in, and massacre and rapine would sweep over her native city. The Lily of Leyden As Christians, we must lament that the track for the advance of Christianity is cleared away by a series of rapine, cruelty, and injustice, at which every one must shudder. Diary in America, Series Two The country they occupy is unsuited to cultivation, and their only avocations are war, rapine, and the chase. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions What’s the use of it to them now? just to spend in the grossest folly and debauchery; and for the sake of collecting it, they have been living a life of murder and rapine! Old Jack In that he has carried murder, arson, lying, rapine, lust up to the nth power, let us concede his claim. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon The soldiers, glutted with blood and rapine, were withdrawn from the scene of their infamous excesses. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Modern times furnish no example of individual rapine on so grand a scale. Diary in America, Series Two From death, famine, rapine, and the concealed war of nature we can see that the highest good, which we can conceive, the creation of the higher animals has directly come. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Bayonet and steel, rapine and torch had failed; but now the process of pulverizing was to come. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death There is but one mitigating thought regarding this rapine of the French, and that is that many art treasures, heretofore virtually locked to the public, were opened to the world—were made easily accessible. Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer The publication of an edict, containing such an injunction, may be compared to unfurling the bloody flag; for murder and rapine were sure to follow. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs We may squander or misinvest our principal, as when we use scientific Page 249 knowledge for dangerous or dubious aims, for example, for conquest or rapine. Human Traits and their Social Significance The city is now a very hell of drunkenness, rapine, fire, and smoke. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain We shall conclude this address by recommending to you, First, To refrain immediately from that species of rapine and murder which has improperly been softened with the name of the African trade. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Death and terror, theft and rapine reigned in the beautiful city of the Scheldt. Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer Now steel-hoofed War is loosened on the world, With rapine and destruction, as the smoke From ashen farm and city soils the sky. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army The raven his fill ate, But rapine feared the Danes each year.’ The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) Whose soul, with blood and rapine stain'd, With deeds of crime to dark it; Who drove God's image, starved and chained, To sell like beasts in market? The Liberty Minstrel Organized raids were made, accompanied by murder and rapine. Plotting in Pirate Seas I trust that the works of ages are not to be laid low by violence, rapine, and the all-devouring sword. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Hence a conflict of desires, a collision of ambitions, a contest of interests, which at all times generate among men discords, machinations, frauds, usurpations, treachery, violence, and rapine. A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth But, good heavens! the whole plan of life is one of rapine. The Daughters of Danaus But Indian rapine having mostly ceased through regions where it once prevailed, the philanthropist is surprised that Indian-hating has not in like degree ceased with it. The Confidence-Man Rebellion, rapine, hate, Oppression, wrong and greed Are loosed to rule our fate, By England's act and deed. The Years Between South of that point for hundreds of miles, robbery, rapine, murder, cruelty, such as devils could not excel if they were to try, is a “domestic institution” with which Britons are pledged not to interfere! Black Ivory Thus at last, in 1816, after the lapse of centuries of murder, rapine, and robbery on the high seas, did the Pirate City receive a fatal blow, from which it never completely recovered. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale Foreign war and rapine have wasted and destroyed our heritage of sacred places. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys He felt as if all strength, value, and virtue had gone out of him; and ever and anon he glared upon the baton of his brother-officer with looks felonious and intent on rapine. Rattlin the Reefer You perceive, therefore, that without rapine or injustice your equality could not be preserved.” Mr. Midshipman Easy I passed this very moment by thy doors, And found them guarded by a troop of villains; "The sons of public rapine were destroying." Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts But one night of tumult and rapine changed the popular standard of color. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited How many a lovely region such as that now spread out before us has suddenly become the scene of rapine and bloodshed!” The Three Lieutenants It was fearful to hear the cries of the women and children, who every moment expected that the place would be given over to rapine and bloodshed. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham Could it possibly be that murder and rapine were abroad on such a night as this? The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Delay no longer, then, but to the senate, And tell the dismal'st story ever uttered; Tell them what bloodshed, rapines, desolations, Have been prepared;—how near's the fatal hour. Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts In this case we were encountering a gang of bloodthirsty wretches, whose whole career had been one of rapine and destruction. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser To rapine bred, the ruthless crew, Nor gratitude nor faith who knew, On the defenceless pigeons fall, And shortly had devoured them all. Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress What hordes still wander through Asia and Africa, seeking opportunity for murder and rapine; what multitudes are still hunted like beasts, caught and sold into slavery. Education and the Higher Life Numbers of disbanded soldiers from the north had made their way to London, where they carried on a system of rapine and outrage. London and the Kingdom - Volume II The spirit of rivalry between the clans kept up a taste for hostility, and converted rapine into a service of honour. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Murder, outrage and rapine flourished unchecked, even encouraged and rewarded. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Little did she suspect that they were beacon-fires calling to deeds of blood and rapine. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania In all places and in every direction rapine became the law, war spared neither life nor property, nor the position of the people. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 He resided in Panopea, where he became formidable for rapine and cruelty, till Apollo killed him for offering violence to his mother Latona. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) He is a grand hero to himself, then, ready for a war dance, for fighting, cruelty, rapine, and revenge. A Little Girl in Old Detroit You've a thousand years of quarrels, of fighting and rapine behind you. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo These acts of massacre and rapine were especially numerous on the eastern borders of Transylvania, among the so-called Szeklers, or "Frontiersmen," in whose country the scene of the present narrative is chiefly laid. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Bands of people who spread pillage, rapine, and fire, place themselves outside of the law. Napoleon the Little These were wild days like those of the revolution, the license and rapine and ravagings of which some of the older men present could very well recall. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The beggar that receives, did he know it, would refuse to be fed with the flesh and blood of a brother; with bread extorted by rapine, from other poor. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March "You seem to be a gentleman, I must admit, but I have heard such stories of violence and rapine that I have some reasons to be apprehensive." Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier Still the legions held to the high ground, and still the black pest of Numidia swept hither and thither on its errand of murder and rapine. The Lion's Brood Each one of the Incas not only followed the tyranny of his father, but also began afresh the same tyranny by force, with deaths, robberies and rapine. History of the Incas Here even more hideous scenes of murder and rapine were perpetrated than at Ciudad Rodrigo, and went on for two days and nights, absolutely unchecked. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War No. In making inroads upon the National Assembly, each class, in accordance with your system, has endeavored to make the law an instrument of rapine. Sophisms of the Protectionists Banquets, too, and all the rough but plentiful appliances of the feast are taken as part of the henchman's pay; and the means of supplying all this prodigality must be sought by war and rapine. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation All around us the former scenes of rapine and violence are changed to fertility and peace. The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 His own rapacious soul delighted to struggle with their rapine, and it charmed him to baffle with his artifice their fraudulent dexterity. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Now this long-pent-up feeling burst out, and murder, rapine, and violence of all sorts raged for some hours, wholly without check. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War We plead the contrary, and say, that duties should never be made an instrument of reciprocal rapine; but that they may be employed as a useful fiscal machine. Sophisms of the Protectionists The Romans at first slighted the insurrection; but when they found the insurgents spread slaughter and rapine wherever they came, they sent out a military force against them. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity The land reeked with carnage, rapine, murder, fire and famine. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Man has fled from the rich and servile plains, from the tyranny of the Turk and from Arabian rapine, to clothe the crag with vines, and rest under his fig tree on the mountain top. Tancred Or, The New Crusade There was an entire absence of the spirit of revenge, or rapine, or blood. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Sextus Tarquin, having gone to Gabii, as to his own kingdom, was slain by the avengers of the old feuds, which he had raised against himself by his rapines and murders. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Idle! 'tis written in their tablets, their bloody scroll of rapine and of murder. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity A scene representing a band of brigands in their mountain fastness, on the watch for plunder and rapine. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants I refer to the acts of violence, rapine, outrage, murder, which were of natural occurrence among the earliest human groups. The Buried Temple I do not like to think of the possible brutality that might have lighted on many hospitable households in blood-shedding or rapine. Border and Bastille Sometimes they are described as two mortals of Laced�mon, who were guilty of violence and rapine, and were slain for their wickedness. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Claude depicts "an unutilized earth," whence all traces of care, labor, sorrow, rapine, and want,—all that can suggest the perils and trials of life,—is removed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 To lie down by her mother was impossible; rapine, murder, fire, all the horrors, all the perils of a city taken by surprise, crowded into her mind. The Long Night With kindly treatment of the Moriscos he would probably have given no more trouble, but the Spanish proved utterly merciless, their soldiers raging through the mountains, and committing the foulest acts of outrage and rapine. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Republics are, in this, as rapacious and unprincipled as Despots, never learning from history that inordinate expansion by rapine and fraud has its inevitable consequences in dismemberment or subjugation. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry A right glorious night it was for rapine and midnight murder. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Well, perhaps one day we might have forgiven you your rapine and your murders; our towns that you have sacked; your heavy yokes; your infamous treasons. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Are these the materials of which we suppose anarchy and public rapine to be formed? Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Valiant and daring were these reckless freebooters, bred to war, living on rapine, battle their delight, revel their relaxation. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII When they saw such members as were employed in committees and civil offices accumulate fortunes, they accused them of rapine and public plunder. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Of all the queen's ministers he alone left a considerable fortune to his posterity; a fortune not acquired by rapine or oppression, but gained by the regular profits of his offices, and preserved by frugality. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. He executed justice with impartiality and rigor; but as he supported the commonalty and the church against the rapine of the nobility, he escaped not the hatred of that order. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary They associated themselves with the banditti, who were already inured to the habits of rapine and violence; and under the name of the "companies" and "companions," became a terror to all the peaceable inhabitants. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. William soon after recovered; and his passions regaining their wonted vigor, he returned to his former violence and rapine. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John In the west especially, where Goring commanded, universal spoil and havoc were committed; and the whole country was laid waste by the rapine of the army. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Within an hour blood was to be shed, no doubt, and rapine done, and he knew not the road to escape by nor the hole to hide in. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times True, O Liebknecht, it is indeed a war of rapine, engendered, planned, and brought about by the nation to which you belong. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers A score or more had taken part in the rapine and the pillage of the guerrilla warfare that has of late years been the curse of the country. Steve Yeager As I have said, the column was contrived for love and not for rapine, my friend. Tales of Destiny The carnage, the rapine, the wholesale desolation was an integral part of the German policy of schrecklichkeit or frightfulness. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Let any impartial man in his senses be asked, for which of these two places a composition of cruelty, lust, avarice, rapine, insolence, hypocrisy, fraud, and treachery is best fitted? History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Besides, murder, plunder, and rapine demoralized your men. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers And, the grave old professors who were droning platitudes of peace and progress and humanitarianism are screaming, ere today is done, shrill senile clamors for blood and ravage and rapine. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Twice, in May and September, the city was put to the horrors of a sack, with all the atrocities of murder, theft and rapine almost inseparable from war. The Age of the Reformation It reminded me there was wrong and rapine in the world. The Prairie Wife They had come there for rapine and murder, expecting an easy victory, and while Tandakora rallied them they were no match for the rangers, led by such men as Willet and his lieutenants. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis Behind the stately speech of international pourparlers and the rhetoric of national appeals burn the old lust and greed and rapine. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers In connection with the other voluntary commutations no special kind of sin is to be found distinct from rapine and theft. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province During the spring of 1525 in central Germany forty-six cloisters and castles were burned to the ground, while violence and rapine reigned supreme with all the ferocity characteristic of class warfare. The Age of the Reformation Wild famine and red-shod rapine are cruel, and bitter with blood are their feasts; But fiercer than famine and redder than rapine the hands and the hearts of priests. Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Cattle is all that they look after; and for the greatest part they live either by hunting, or upon rapine; and are made, as it were, only for war. Ideal Commonwealths That plunder, rapine, and devastation in the most fertile and populous parts of these counties, widely mark their footsteps wherever they go. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Now there are opposed to beneficence certain vices whereby a hurt is inflicted on our neighbor, for instance, rapine, theft and so forth. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province The lukewarm, and even the loyalists, were the victims of this indiscriminating spirit of rapine and violence. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Contemplate," he said, "the heroes of humanity who were the world's benefactors, and who were all united in banishing from the world, as far as they were able, violence and rapine. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary Both the Government forces and the rebels came to respect Quaker integrity, and in the midst of pillage and rapine the Quaker households escaped unscathed. Introduction to Non-Violence If we fail of the conviction of the prisoner at your bar, your Lordships will not have acquitted Mr. Hastings merely, but you will confirm all the robberies and rapines of Gunga Govind Sing. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) We see them, in the country of an ally and in a time of peace, producing all the consequences of rapine and of war. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) He gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy. Elsie's Vacation and After Events The numbers of the original fugitives were soon increased by evil-doers from all sides—ruffians who had a natural bent for rapine—and a plague of robbers was the result, threatening all parts of Hungary. Round About the Carpathians Since, however, murder and rapine were held to be unlawful even by the Gentiles, there would have been no need to give this special commandment to those who were converted to Christ from heathendom. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Judge you of the bribery, rapine, and peculation which here stare you in the face. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) I never sent Mr. Osborne to settle the concerns of Allahabad, for there was no occasion for him; but Mr. Osborne, of himself, committed depredations and rapines within Ishmael Beg's jurisdiction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Who—who could this be, wearing the honorable garb of a soldier of United States, yet figuring as a ringleader in a band of robbers and assassins now adding rapine to their calendar of crime? Foes in Ambush The prevision of Washington was shortly realized, and a cloud of red warriors descended on the border settlements, carrying murder, rapine, and ruin before them. With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent Of the seven hundred-odd prisoners the greater number were Tories, many of them red-handed from scenes of rapine in which their present captors had suffered the loss of all that men hold dear. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Is it richly furnished within? the more it will tempt the hands of violence and of rapine to seize its wealth. Dialogues of the Dead You see the whole was one universal scene of plunder and rapine. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Quite a contrast to the plain rigidity of Benedict, he was courteous and munificent, but withal a voluptuary; and his luxury and profusion gave rise to extortions, to rapine, and to boundless simony. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Sometimes quarrels arose, very noisy, a great hubbub of bickerings touching their jealousies, their fears, their unspeakable hopes of murder and rapine. Romance None whatever; they have no idea of morality, and you see them indulge in all kinds of rogueries, frauds, rapine, and excesses which the law does not punish. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense If ever breath of British gale Shall fan the tricolor, Or footstep of invader rude, With rapine foul and red with blood, Pollute our happy shore— Then farewell home! and farewell friends! The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Both armies, prompted either by fancied military necessity or malice, burned or confiscated valuable forage crops and other stores, and nearly every locality, at one time or another, witnessed depredation, robbery, murder, arson, and rapine. History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia Such rapine sweet through all my heart extends, New thoughts and wishes so within me vie, Perforce I say,—"Thus be it mine to die, If Heaven to me so fair a doom intends!" The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch In the rapine of that employment, and what he got by picking the teeth of his masters, he sustain’d himself till he had raked together some little estate. Andrew Marvell The place was typical of a rude, semi-barbarous age, an age of rapine, murder and ferocious cruelty, and its story is as terrific as one would anticipate from its forbidding aspect. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland The Sea Dyaks are piratical tribes, dwelling on the coasts or borders of rivers, and subsisting by rapine and violence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics The Banian slaves would like to go with Tagamoio, and share in his rapine and get slaves. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi On the one hand, rapine, plunder, slavery, tribute, civil disability; on the other, security, peace, and honor. Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans Law and order are forgotten: violence and rapine are abroad: the golden cords of society are loosed. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. A flower-bud is something so innocent and childlike; and to disguise oneself as such for purposes of murder and rapine argues the final abyss of arachnoid perfidy. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Whole tribes, whole groups of islands, almost whole races, despising even the semblance of honest industry, depended upon rapine for a livelihood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics They dwelt in little isolated communities, bound together internally by ties of blood, and uniting occasionally with others only for purposes of rapine. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain And if science produces no better fruits than tyranny, murder, rapine, and destitution of national morality, I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest, and estimable, as our neighboring savages are. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Mr. Nixon should have uplifted the standards of a new crusade against that handful of great robbers who, making Tammany their stronghold, issued forth to a rapine of the town. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Whatever their conscience may be, whatever may be the nature of their moral rules, rapine and murder are certainly not forbidden by them, or the law is not obeyed. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged One phase of this most disastrous struggle—the War of the Palatinate—carried the rapine and slaughter to the banks of the Rhine, where, as has been said, they were long remembered. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine The professionals will march through rapine to emancipation. Lost Leaders Fame swifter than your winged navy flies Thro' ev'ry land that near the ocean lies, Sounding your name, and telling dreadful News To all that piracy and rapine use. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Am I obliged by that to assist his rapines, And to maintain his murders? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Do you remember the glorious rapines and robberies you have committed? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 For a life of lawlessness, rapine, and robbery, does not debar a man from keeping an oath sworn, out of honest gratitude, in cleaner, better days. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century Husbandry was neglected, the peace of households was destroyed, and plunder and rapine were the watchwords of the time. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 He died in unblest celibacy,—and thus he received the curses of the living for his rapine, while the stranger who grasped the million he had raked together owed him no gratitude at his death. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 You both are mad; is this like gallant men, To fight at midnight; at the murderer's hour; 344 When only guilt and rapine draw a sword? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Distrusts, debates, immortal strifes ensue; Children may murder parents, wives their husbands; All must be rapine, wars, and desolation, When trust and gratitude no longer bind. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Everything was full of blood and violence: murders, burnings, rapine, and confusion overspread the whole kingdom. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) In nineteen hundred and fourteen, The frightful year, the year of woe, When fire and blood and rapine flow Across the land from lost Li�ge, Storm-driven by the German rage? The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Those fits of conscience in another might be excusable; but in you, a Dutchman, who are of a race that are born rebels, and live every where on rapine,—would you degenerate, and have remorse? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Think on their rapine, falsehood, cruelty, And that what once they were, they still wou'd be. English Satires This casket is loaded with your sins; 'tis the cargo of rapines, simony, and extortions; the iniquity of thirty years muftiship converted into diamonds. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 The barons, having thus shut out the law, made continual inroads upon each other, and spread war, rapine, burning, and desolation throughout the whole kingdom. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Instead of being in honour and prosperity, their history, since his time, is one dreadful record of unparalleled sufferings, written in letters of blood by the hands of murder, rapine, and cruelty. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old In woods and wilds thy monarchy maintain, Where valiant beasts, by force and rapine, reign. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 Such a religion may degenerate into mere slaughter and rapine; but it has the making in it of the noblest men. The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford Do I discourage rebellion, mutiny, rapine, and plundering? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 Let tyrants and minions presume to despise, Encroach on our rights, and make freedom their prize; The fruits of their rapine they never shall keep, Though vengeance may nod, yet how short is her sleep! The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 The first swarms of Norsemen had brought with them rapine and disorder. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns He might outstrip the stream of rapine, he might carry the alarm; at worst he might reach his betrothed before harm befell her. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France It was on this occasion that those wild, savage scenes of murder, rapine, and plunder took place, the account of which as published in the newspapers is but the pale shadow of the real facts…. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) Oppression, rapine, banishment, and blood, Are now no more; but speechless as that tongue, That lies for ever still. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 I am opposed to them, because they have in some instances made attempts to foment insurrections, and to incite the slaves to indiscriminate murder and rapine. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Rushing down upon the no less elaborate neighbouring villas, they forced in the gates, overcame what slight opposition the trembling slaves might make, and gave full sway to their passion for plunder and rapine. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. But was the state of France so wretched and undone, that no other resource but rapine remained to preserve its existence? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Then what a carnival of lust, rapine and bloody murder! In the Days of Poor Richard When the Land League was founded he denounced it as an organisation whose steps were "dogged with crime," and whose march was "through rapine to the dismemberment of the Empire." Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union The history of England for centuries past, is but a record of crime—of wars, butcheries and bloodshed—rapine, injustice, oppression and inhumanity. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery And in his crew of Greeks, Orientals, and Spaniards were many more whom calamity, not innate wickedness, so Cornelia discovered, had driven to a life of violence and rapine. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Whatever human feeling had ever, if ever, filled these souls was utterly drowned and washed away in the tide of rapine and blood in which they had been steeping themselves. What Answer? The Black Prince, after winning his spurs at Cressy, carried fire and sword among the peaceful and defenceless inhabitants of Garonne, gratifying a greed of gain by blood and rapine. A History of English Prose Fiction All that was good and holy is dethroned, And lust and rapine are for justice owned. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 Rodolph soon heard of the atrocities of his rival, who abandoned the country to fire, sword, and rapine. The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century Their passions were inflamed, their tempers soured, their understandings confused with the spirit of revenge, with the innumerable reciprocated and recent inflictions and retaliations of blood and rapine. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) |
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