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It was said that the ship contained great wealth that had been pillaged along the coast of India, and the best that they had pillaged from the Chinese.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

Thus did they establish their factory in the port of Firando, where they have maintained themselves to this very day, taking the silks that they have pillaged from the Chinese, and certain cloth stuffs from Europa, and buying food and supplies for their forces in the Malucas and other islands of those regions.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source.

Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account.

Aristides Plutarch 1909

Pretending now to repent of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account.

The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884

Leaked emails, seen by the Herald Sun, reveal several senior officers are worried they can't adequately police suburban beats because their staff are being "pillaged" for the

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The court also noted that Mr Reeves "pillaged" Waterloo for his own purposes, racking up hotel and restaurant bills on company credit cards.

National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand 2008

Lombard Finance & Investments chief executive Michael Reeves "pillaged" a struggling firm to pay for a high-flying lifestyle ... .and some of his actions fell "well below those acceptable in business".

whoar.co.nz 2008

Lombard Finance & Investments chief executive Michael Reeves "pillaged" a struggling firm to pay for a high-flying lifestyle ... .and some of his actions fell "well below those acceptable in business".

whoar.co.nz 2008