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Pillager  n.  One who pillages.





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"Pillager" Quotes from Famous Books



... uproars, against the city rises the turreted circumvallation,[118] and man is slain by man with the spear. And the cries of children at the breast all bloody resound, and there is rapine sister of pell-mell confusion. Pillager meets pillager, and the empty-handed shouts to the empty-handed, wishing to have a partner, greedy for a portion that shall be neither less nor equal. What of these things can speech picture? Fruits of ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
 
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... company of dragoons was furnished during the next summer when Governor Ramsey was sent to Pembina to draw up a treaty with the Pillager band of Chippewa Indians. On August 18, 1851, the party set out from Fort Snelling. Besides the Governor and a number of gentlemen who accompanied him, the party consisted of twenty-five dragoons, ...
— Old Fort Snelling - 1819-1858 • Marcus L. Hansen
 
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Words linked to "Pillager" :   sea robber, stealer, sea rover, looter, buccaneer, despoiler, pirate, war, thief, plunderer



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