Significados de despoilation em inglês

The spoliation will increase the distress; the distress will produce fresh spoliation.

The spoliation of Jerusalem by Titus had taken place in A.D. 70.

The first which presents itself is spoliation through the avenue of superstition.

All the causes which had produced the first spoliation would still operate.

I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.

Without this natural protection it became a land subject to constant attack and despoliation.

And this was a Dawson dance-hall, the trump card in the nightly game of despoliation.

It is entirely out of the track of both armies, and has completely escaped despoliation.

This grand achievement led to the opening of a splendid continent, teeming with riches, for Spanish adventure and despoliation.

What apostleship of despoliation!

He saw the destroyer of their lives, a devil who had worked subtly for his despoilment.

Delacroix's picture portrays a scene in this despoilment.

Gunesekera's fiction often touches on loss, flight, memory, the eroding passage of time and the despoilment of ostensible paradises.

Then, on April 12, 1204, the invaders secured it again, and subjected it to a despoilment without parallel.

His victim dragged herself back to her mother's door, and, half dead with grief and fright, related the awful story of her despoilment.

At the beginning of the persecution they were passive, meekly submitting to reproach, spoilation, imprisonment, and death, for Christ's sake.

The claims of our citizens against Sweden, Denmark and Brazil, for spoilations of commerce, were satisfactorily consummated.

"Civilization is a development through blood and spoilation," the architect remarked.

Mr. Alexander C. M. Pennington, as chairman of that committee, handed me the voluminous papers in reference to the French Spoilation Claims.