While they were plundering the house they insulted Mrs. DeLancey, who ran out into the night and hid under the stoop until the raiders left the house.
The Dutch realized too late that they were plundering an irreplaceable ecological asset, and their mistakes have jolted Irish public opinion into calling for the preservation of what are now the last surviving bogs in Western Europe.
They are plundering Burma's forests and jade mines.
Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack the city, is supposed to have asked Cyrus, "What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?" "They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures," Cyrus replied.
I had foraged as a child, although it has to be said that children don't think "forage" when they are out stripping raspberry bushes and blackberry brambles; they think about getting away before the ogre whose land they're plundering catches them and turns them into toads.
They are plundering points whenever Ulster leave the door ajar, while their opponents, for all their sweat and toil, have not quite got the street smarts to match.
That's it, that's the only thing they care about while they're plundering away.
Over the past few years, numerous museums have been confronted with claims that antiquities they have been acquiring were plundered by tomb robbers.
Um Kamal, a homemaker, said her house and a relative's were plundered while they were away.
It is not only that museums and libraries were plundered after they were left unguarded in April 2003, and that hundreds of ancient sites are now pitted and destroyed by looters, although that damage is certainly extensive.
