spoilation
Example Sentences
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Even the glorious name of Turenne could not protect his grave from spoilation.
From The Revelation Explained by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)
At the beginning of the persecution they were passive, meekly submitting to reproach, spoilation, imprisonment, and death, for Christ's sake.
From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.
The French spoilation claims that were being vigorously prosecuted in 1827 are yet undetermined in 1886.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley
"Civilization is a development through blood and spoilation," the architect remarked.
From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)
The national pride, if not the material interests involved, would not permit the government to submit to such destruction or spoilation without making every possible effort to prevent it.
From Forty-Six Years in the Army by Schofield, John M.
