rapine

The rapine of the Land's last beauty had begun.

In an instant, all thought of plunder and rapine vanished.

It was not an age of rapine and endless bloodshed."

What were their motives, if they were not rapine and robbery?

Through rapine and slaughter the land will be lost and the people destroyed.

Momentarily I was overwhelmed by the memory of the rapine that had been wrought there.

Public opinion, now supporting ground action to stop rapine and mass murder, could turn against him at the first sight of body bags.

A confrontation with the Despiser would at least put an end to this horror and rapine.

His rage and the urge for rapine were past, and this was far more fun.

Soon the fighting ebbed, to be replaced by waves of looting and rapine.

In their hearts they lament the rapine of trees."

In silence and rapine, the Giant-Raver moved to his next victim.

Passages of soldiers who "lived by theft and rapine" sparked a riot in 1691.

These people were bred in rapine and horror.

As a candidate for rapine, I would pick her; but then I know what my wife is like.

The whole country was at this time in a state of anarchy, violence rapine and murder reigned supreme on all sides.

She did, as well as suffered much, during the period of devastation and lawless rapine.

He wanted to be free to sell full privileges of rapine and murder to Jacaro.

But, still, I count myself as more than a beast who would commit rapine upon such a delicate flower."

Before the victors arrive, and the plundering and the rapine begin.

The term is also used in a non-geographical sense, somewhat similar to the term "rapine."

I wish that Mr. Bush's environmental policy wasn't rooted in rapine.

"Your savages might relish a bit of rapine.

Leagues of soft slopes and natural growth separated the craters, stood against the sun's arid rapine.

The water had revived then miraculously, and before them lay the promise of plunder and rapine.