Indiscriminate taking of goods by force.
1
But this body was dressed, and had weapons-wasworth despoiling, in fact.
2
We found him in our nest, on our land, despoiling our people.
3
He had led the whites in the despoiling of the Indians.
4
Instead of despoiling others they discovered an occasional hiatus in their own smoke-house.
5
They succeeded in completely despoiling one gate before they were disturbed.
6
He wishes, Cassiodorus tells us, to build new edifices without despoiling the old.
7
They are not addicted to despoiling widows and orphans, then putting up long-winded prayers.
8
The despoiling soothed Quinn as he knelt at the altar.
9
I left you the millions of Italy; I find despoiling laws and misery throughout!
10
Never before have plunderers, dreaming of despoiling a conquered people, displayed such cynical heartlessness!
11
Instead, he sees an ugly sneer of hypocrisy despoiling his perfection all the more.
12
He had concocted a tremendous plot that his theft of the diamonds came near despoiling.
13
Your father, godly as he is, would have little compunction in despoiling such an Amalekite.
14
Most of them end up cluttering landfill sites or despoiling the countryside and city streets.
15
They, too, say that in conquering and despoiling my countrymen they are fulfilling a divine vengeance.
16
Does not the practice of despoiling an enemy afford an excuse for not facing the battle?
