Then they set out and journeyed night and day till they drew near Baghdad, and all the troops heard of Kanmakan and saw the booty and the brigand's head on the point of Subbah's spear.
Thereupon we sallied forth on them, and looking on them as booty driven to us by fate, slew the men and made prize of the ships, in which we found the treasures and rarities in question and forty damsels, amongst whom was Sufiyeh.
Thou shalt surely have a share in it," answered Kanmakan, "but now keep watch over the booty and the slaves.
She was afraid she would be called upon to make a restitution of that part of the booty that had gone her way.
He was caught in the act, but escaped for a time; then was seized after a hot pursuit and searched, but with no result, for he had dropped his booty in the race.
The fair inference was that the murderers had returned hoping to lay hands on some of the booty which they had previously missed.
So far they seem to have held the bulk of their booty in Bank of England notes, a very tell-tale commodity which could always be traced through the numbers.
Finding that Rouen had been placed in a state of defense and could not be taken without a long siege, he left it behind him and marched along the valley of the Eure, gathering rich booty at every step.
Let him lie here for awhile, while you gather your booty together, then we will carry him off.
They beat a hurried retreat with their booty beyond the line, whither they were pursued by a hastily gathered party of mounted men under the lead of Captain Conger, who had served in the Union army.
All the inhabitants were slain or captured, the village plundered and set on fire, and an hour after sunrise the victorious party was on its way to Canada with its booty and wretched captives.
We had a great store of bootywhich we would not trust to the wildmen, ffor the occasion makes the thiefe.
The combat begins a new; they see the ffrench that weare uppon the watter come neere, which renforced them to take their boats with all hast, and leave their booty behind.
They found a more rude and cruell enemy; for some after being taken gott their lives, but the hunger and their treachery made them kill one another, be it for booty or whatsoever other.
Hearing that there was a rich booty in the camp, that Caesar was away, and only a small party had been left to guard it, they decided to try to take the place by a sudden stroke.
The only, but unhappily too valuable, bootywhich they had carried off consisted of some thousands of prisoners.
With this booty they sailed on to another island, "where they found an infinite number of herons, of which they made good cheer, and so returned Nuno Tristam very joyfully to the Prince.
Robbing the worker of her booty is nothing out of the way: we see it daily; but cutting her throat in order to empty her stomach is going beyond a joke.
My booty comprises two species of Lamellicorns: Anoxia villosa and Euchlora Julii, both of whom I find in the perfect state, usually dead, but sometimes alive.
Instead of this unscrupulously omnivorous race, levying booty upon every kind of game, to its very great advantage, what do we see to-day?
Whoever laid aside his share of the bootywas a traitor, and whoever withdrew with his money to lead a respectable life, they killed.
Because we are not tired of having things go well with us and finding booty everywhere without danger," said one.
The retreating army carried off an immense booty and drove before them about a hundred thousand captives of both sexes, who were eventually sold as slaves at Constantinople.
They ravaged the coasts of Spain, Italy, and France, and even occasionally of England and Ireland, devastating the cities and villages and carrying away booty and captives.
In the event of victory they benefited not only from the ordinary booty in money and chattels, on the sack of cities and the pillage of country districts.
They could not understand a war conducted without the levy of booty from the enemy's country.
It may be surmised that large numbers of Turks from other parts of Anatolia flocked to his standard in search of adventure and booty in Europe.
Before striking the camp all the immense booty taken in the campaign was burnt.
The fact that the Duke of Brunswick’s house was full of rich booty was known to every depredator in Europe, and a thousand plans were devised to break in and rifle it.
Arrests followed, and the clockmaker confessed that his brother and Drouillet had committed the robbery and had melted down a portion of the booty and thrown the rest into the Seine--where, as a matter of fact, it was subsequently fished out.
The two men bore huge baskets full of bread on their backs, and the booty was distributed and eagerly devoured by the soldiers, while the peasants, securely bound, were detained a short distance in the forest under a guard of three archers.
Unwilling to leave the booty where it might again fall into the hands of the Normans, the Constable made preparations to carry off the whole of the munitions of war.
Many of the French and Genoese, having had their fill of plunder, were busy removing their bootyto the galleys.
Thou wert among the volunteers that seized and made booty of the Swedish battery at Altenburg.
He is attainted, and his princely head Fair booty for each slave that trades in murder.
Twenty-five were they of the town, and thirty they captured of those without; eagerly they seized upon the armour, and good booty had they therein.
When they have won their booty they will repair thither; ofttimes they ride there unarmed upon their palfreys, and so put themselves in jeopardy of speedy death; right soon could we do them damage, and hurt and annoy.
They bought slaves and other booty from them at mock prices, even close by the gates of Rome.
The Persian booty might be good after its kind; but it was far away; and, en attendant, Roman booty was doubtless good after its kind.
But as valuable booty for our submarines particularly those ships are to be regarded that import any kinds of commodities to England.
The devout Hunyadi afterwards caused a chapel to be erected from the proceeds of the Turkish booty in memory of his martyred comrades.
They crossed the Rhine, flooded a part of France, and quick as were their inroads, no less promptly did they return, always laden with rich booty and driving before them a long file of slaves of both sexes.
It was the old lust of conquest and adventure, and greediness for booty which spurred their activity.
They have restored us part of the booty they had taken from us.
In battle the body of a dead knight gave much booty to the slayer; the capture of a canopy enriched the captors; and the defeat of an army and seizure of its camp gave to the victors a train of spoils.
Success at sea and on land resulted in the capture of richly laden prizes, multitudes of captives, and booty of enormous value.
The booty adorned the churches and enriched the people.
The rich booty acquired at Iasus was unconsumed; the Milêsians were zealous in the confederate cause; while the pay from Tissaphernês continued to be supplied with tolerable regularity, though at the reduced rate mentioned a little above.
Booty was strewn over 80 miles of country and the Arabs living in the neighbourhood must have secured sufficient goods of various description to last them the rest of their lives.
The Romans capture Bolae, an Æquian town; the division of the booty causes a mutiny among the soldiers, who slay the quaestor and the military tribune, M.
Camillus banished from Rome, charged with misappropriating the bootysecured at Veii, but really on account of his patrician haughtiness; he dies at Ardea, whither he had withdrawn.
The booty was immense and Drappes fell into the hands of the Romans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "booty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
