rapine
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He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine art of the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Rickett's motive is interpreted by the less credulous as a desire to save Ethiopia, and incidentally his concession, from Italian rapine by putting new hope into the elements opposed to invasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not notice-boards and gates—they were the insulting tokens of invasion and rapine and defeat.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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.
From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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