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1 The walls are broken down and the troops of the spoilers sack the city .
2 Why did they not suddenly rise and sack the city ?
3 The merchants expected that the Yankees would sack the city , so they threw open their stores and told everybody to take all they wanted.
4 The victors now sacked the city very thoroughly, but the results were disappointing.
5 He sacked the city and killed many of the inhabitants, leaving the city in ruins.
6 F.-Butthey might have taken and sacked the city .
7 In 1760 this buccaneer sacked the city of Granada in company with Captains Harris and Ludbury.
8 They did not leave it until 410, the year that Alaric sacked the city of Rome.
9 Many still remember how your lord father sacked the city , when Aerys opened the gates to him.
10 This year the Goths sacked the city of Rome; and never since have the Romans reigned in Britain.
11 The customhouse bordered one of the few neighborhoods that hadn't been rebuilt since the Tyrian gladiators sacked the city .
12 The Greeks sacked the city of Chryse, where was a temple of Apollo, and a priest that served the temple.
14 I seek for tidings of my father, who in old time fought by thy side, and sacked the city of Troy.
15 "Then it was not the French who sacked the cities ? "
16 The Vandals burned the villages through which they marched, and sacked the cities , and destroyed the harvests, and cut down the trees.
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