rapine

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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

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

But Clifford Castle is not associated merely with ideas of war and rapine, but with those of love and beauty. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

He who by rapine desires the things that he beholds with his eyes without, is a kite, not a dove at his windows.

From 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. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.