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- noun Plural form of
pillaging .
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Examples
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Viking cat pillages with cuteness you must make offering to avoid teh pillagings!
Viking cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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You take construction paper, scraps from your old models or pillagings from other people's models, whatever materials you can scrounge up, and using these garbage, you cut and glue a concept, a scheme and even a program together.
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You take construction paper, scraps from your old models or pillagings from other people's models, whatever materials you can scrounge up, and using these garbage, you cut and glue a concept, a scheme and even a program together.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Certaldo, and after these conquests and pillagings encamped before the fortress of Colle, which was considered very strong; and as the garrison was brave and faithful to the Florentines, it was hoped they would hold the enemy at bay till the republic was able to collect its forces.
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Meanwhile Sherman's army was rapidly advancing northward and reports were arriving of its pillagings and burnings.
Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Treacherous attacks, massacres, burnings, and pillagings were everyday occurrences, and white men were hardly less at fault than red.
The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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From March to September a whole series of burnings, killings, and pillagings drenched all France in blood.
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It is thus that the usurpations of the rich, the pillagings of the poor, and the unbridled passions of all, by stifling the cries of natural compassion, and the as yet feeble voice of justice, rendered man avaricious, wicked and ambitious.
Second Part 1909
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I am thoroughly convinced that opportunities will not be lacking in which, coming to blows, they will lose more, if God help us; for their attachment is strong to the profit that they claim from these pillagings, as well as from those that they made in former years.
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While Captain Morgan made his fortune by these pillagings, his companions, who were separated from his fleet at the Cape de Lobos, to take the ship spoken of before, endured much misery, and were unfortunate in all their attempts.
The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main George Alfred Williams 1903
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