ransackers

Meanwhile, back at the farmhouse, everything was stripped cleaned, the house and the barn, burned to the ground, and the ransackers made off with the loot.

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By some strange freak of nature this lofty ridge, lying about 6000 feet above the sea level, and forming a narrow gold-bearing bed over a hundred miles long, is by universal confession the richest treasure-house the ransackers of the whole earth have yet brought to light.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

No doubt had Gold-mane but that these ransackers were his friends of the Mountain; but he held his peace, abiding till the winter should be over.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

They all said that this seemed like to be; but that if the man who had slain Rusty were one of the ransackers they might have a blood - wite of him, if they could find him.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

Here by the Holy Boar I swear to follow up the ransackers of Penny-thumb and the slayers of Rusty.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

She said: 'These tidings have we heard before, and some deal of them we know better than ye do, or can; for we were the ransackers of

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

So the new-comers cowed them that they threw down their weapons, and were bound in their places; but when they were bound, and had had time to note who the ransackers were, they saw that there were but six of them all told, who had cowed and bound Harts-bane and his twelve masterful men; and this they deemed a great shaming to them, as might well be.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

'Bristler, son of Brightling, and ye other good men and true, it is but sooth that the ransackers and the slayer may soon be known; and here I declare them unto you: I it was and none other who slew

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

We think of them as hiding in the hills - rebels, ransackers, rogue revolutionaries.

NPR Topics: News 2011

We think of them as hiding in the hills - rebels, ransackers, rogue revolutionaries.

NPR Topics: News 2011