plunder

• FOOTNOTES Footnote 11: This word plunder is probably from Pennsylvania, as it is exactly equivalent to the German word plunder , in the sense of household effects, the original meaning of the word in German. —  The Hoosier Schoolmaster
• The pursuit was kept up about four miles, when, fortunately for the surviving Americans, that avidity for plunder which is a ruling passion among savages, called back the victorious Indians to the camp, where the spoils of their vanquished foes were to be divided. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
• Illustrated 1.25 There were some schoolboys who had turned housebreakers, and among their plunder was a silver medal that had been given to one John Harrison by the Humane Society for rescuing from drowning a certain Benton Barry. —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
• Illustrated. $1.25 There were some schoolboys who had turned housebreakers, and among their plunder was a silver medal that had been given to one John Harrison by the Humane Society for rescuing from drowning a certain Benton Barry. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• If the conviction were just--and it was obviously just--then Lord Macclesfield had disgraced the highest bench of justice, and merely to condemn him to disgorge a part of his plunder was a singularly inadequate sort of punishment. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)

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