Sentence examples for pillaging on from inspiring English sources

The privateers were then granted one hour of free pillaging on Kent before Surcouf restored order; however, the female passengers were strictly protected and sentries were placed in front of their apartments.

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It comes when looting and pillaging on both sides of the border threaten to unravel a delicate peace deal in Ivory Coast and unnerve a Liberian government under growing pressure from its own insurgents.

The mutineers then dispersed to their home villages, pillaging on the way; they failed to spread the insurrection to neighbouring garrisons.

They liberated Henry after defeating the Yorkist army of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, in the Second Battle of St Albans, and continued pillaging on their way to London.

On 30 December 1460, Percy led the central "battle" or section of the victorious Lancastrian army at the Battle of Wakefield, following which, the army marched south, pillaging on the road to London.

"I plunder and pillage on paper. . . .

It is only because greedy western investors have told their fund managers to rape and pillage on their behalf to fund an otherwise unaffordable retirement.

A few steps away is a monkey's head made of gold and lapis lazuli, which, according to the museum's own documents, originates from La Mina, a site looted in 1988 during a wave of pillage on Peru's north coast.

Then after all that was done successfully, they were pillaged on the royalty end by a greedy supply/distribution chain which gave them only a teeny percentage of the profits.

The Energy Department employees who blew the whistle on the pillaging of military secrets by Chinese spies really do seem to have been performing a public service.