During these first few days of the French occupation Moscow became a very pandemonium of pillage and violence, of smoke and fire, of orgies and of cruelties too horrible to relate.
Then pillagebegan and continued until Napoleon himself arrived within the city walls.
Wouldst thou have ceased to destroy, to pillage or to outrage this day if we had not raised our arms in our own defence?
We have made claims against the Turkish Government for the pillage and destruction of missionary property at Harpoot and Marash during uprisings at those places.
Pillage is about to produce a new play, and one of his friends volunteers to "clap every good thing till I bring the house down.
They pillage the bishops, and the bishops excommunicate the pillagers.
There was an immense quantity of things sold, but owing to favour and pillage they brought very little; and to replace them afterwards, millions were spent.
The robbers may have profited by the absence of the inhabitants to pillage the houses, but as luck would have it no mischance of this kind had taken place.
This multitude of people presented a frightful spectacle, and seemed as if determined to pillage the palace.
Some Cossacks came to pillage the abandoned apartments, in ignorance that a fire was smoldering under their feet, and were thrown to a prodigious height in the air.
The present system of inflicting short imprisonments at first, and reserving long imprisonments and transportation for criminals who have plied their trade of pillage for two or three years, should be abolished.
The inhabitants are building up gates in all the principal streets, both against the swarms of thieves who plunder by night, and in anticipation of the entrance of the opposing party, when a general pillage seems now fully expected by all.
The desertion of the column upon the march, or straggling, for the purposes of pillage and plunder, is an offence made punishable with death by the Articles of War.
Within twenty years he has summoned a round million of foreign mercenaries to pillage and rend your kingdom.
In short, the pillage was rescued and all who conducted it slain or made prisoners; for not three escaped, excepting varlets, who ran away and crossed the river by swimming.
At the same time he points out that the savage excesses of the Circassians were equalled, if not surpassed, by the exploits both of the Cossacks and the Bulgarians, who never allowed an opportunity of massacre or pillage to escape them.
Now the purport of her speech struck home; the seemingly soft-brained weakness that had forbidden the rape and pillage of the schooner stood in part explained.
Pirate the Red Chief was last of the band; every man who calls thee queen is under sentence of death; the pillage of a hundred ships lies here.
A flood-tide of murder and pillageswept over the Alleghenies.
Here they saw several deserted huts, the ruins of a village lately destroyed by the war, abandoned fields, and everywhere signs of pillage and incendiary fires.
Their mode of warfare is of the guerilla type; they form skirmishing parties, come down in small detachments, and pillage the colonists' homes.
They therefore began to sack and pillage the rich houses, and to murder the inhabitants.
And all night the old and the young and the women lay trembling in their beds lest the men of London should be beaten back by the men of Kent, and these should come in with fire and sword to pillage and destroy.
The pillage went on until the victorious general had got his army--or some of it--across the Bridge.
The news of this event soon reached the king of Hungary; who, calling together a considerable force, marched to avenge the death and pillage of his subjects.
We cannot tolerate the spoil and pillage of our own citizens, within sight of our own coasts, after sending 4,000 miles to redress the wrongs of the black race.
For thou hast drain'd invention, and he That writes hereafter, doth but pillage thee.
Hereafter, when you see a chance to play the scoundrel, before you embrace it, please measure the probable pillage and let me know.
When it came to deeds, both killed chickens, and both appeared equally ready to pillage the hen roosts of government.
Patrick Henry Hanway, rather from a blind impression of possible pillage than any eagerness to uphold a Union which seemed toppling to its fall, enlisted for ninety days.
The pillageof Cordova had been exaggerated by the public imagination, and served the chiefs of the insurrection to justify their want of faith.
Marauders often detached themselves from their regiments, living for several weeks by veritable pillage before returning under their flags.
The Roman Government has still greater fear of its own dissatisfied subjects, especially those who have been allured to authority and pillage by the sort of revolution just gone through.
The mob of camp-followers, deaf to discipline, forced open the gates, and generalpillage had commenced when the emperor's order was modified.
But his pillage of Cordova had roused the Spanish wrath into fury; and the effort to carry off his plunder made it impossible for him to resist a vigorous attack, even with his twenty thousand veterans.
They fought for the pillage of a camp, or the booty of the fields, after which victors and vanquished retired alike into their respective cities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pillage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
