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  • A Revolution, a War, the Dissolution of Government, the creating of it anew, Cruelty, Rapine and Devastation in the midst of our very Bowels, these Sir are circumstances by no means favorable to Finance.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Rapine as sport had never held any appeal for him, and he felt contempt for those who took pleasure from it.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • A Revolution, a War, the Dissolution of Government, the creating of it anew, Cruelty, Rapine and Devastation in the midst of our very Bowels, these Sir are circumstances by no means favorable to Finance.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Rapine as sport had never held any appeal for him, and he felt contempt for those who took pleasure from it.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • For example, after reciting the crimes that the East India Company had committed "for the Sake of Gain" in Asia, John Dickinson, later a signer of the Constitution, moaned that the company now "cast their Eyes on America, as a new Theatre, whereon to exercise their Talents of Rapine, Oppression and Cruelty."

    Rand Paul's Bad Week 2010

  • This we demonstrated to her; as also, how, lastly, the Ottoman Empire was set up, and how it began with Rebellion, was carry'd on with Injustice, War and Rapine, and established in a compound Religion, of Jew, Heretical

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • This we demonstrated to her; as also, how, lastly, the Ottoman Empire was set up, and how it began with Rebellion, was carry'd on with Injustice, War and Rapine, and established in a compound Religion, of Jew, Heretical

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Rapine, outrage, etc., are evil only because they produce evil.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I had been delivered from a captivity during which I had spent an entire night in a single room with a number of men who were, to the certain knowledge of all right-thinking Englishmen, "Little more than Savage Beasts, guilty of Rapine, Robbery, and countless other such Hideous Crimes."

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • Rapine, plunder, slaughter, all the basest crimes of man would become something more than right - made into a duty, a Holy Cause, not sins at all.

    The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

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