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Updated: June 22, 2025
Bart said that if a man approached, with or without exacting a pledge of confidence, and made him a proposition strictly honorable, he should of course regard it as sacred; but if he proposed to him to unite in a robbery, house-burning, or to pass counterfeit money, or commit any breach of morality, he should certainly hold himself at liberty to disclose it, if he deemed it necessary.
When Bouroche, who knew nothing of the patient he was summoned with such insistence to attend and grumbled at having to climb so many stairs, learned that it was a Communist he had on his hands he commenced to storm. "God's thunder, what do you take me for? Do you suppose I'm going to waste my time on those thieving, murdering, house-burning scoundrels?
Raiding parties on both sides took to ambuscades, nocturnal house-burning, hanging of prisoners, and downright massacres. Pre-eminent for his success was the British Colonel Tarleton, who with a body of light troops swept tirelessly around, breaking up rebel bands, riding down militia, and rendering his command a terror to the State.
Japan professed a desire to conciliate Korea and to win the affection and support of her people. In one province at least the policy of house-burning had reduced a prosperous community to ruin, increased the rebel forces, and sown a crop of bitter hatred which it would take generations to root out. We rode on through village after village and hamlet after hamlet burned to the ground.
This was no accidental conflagration, mind you, for scattered here and there were houses which stood undamaged and in every such case there was scrawled with chalk upon their doors "Gute Leute. Nicht zu plundern." The Germans went about the work of house-burning as systematically as they did everything else. They had various devices for starting conflagrations, all of them effective.
Occupation of Kinston Opening of Neuse River Rebel ram destroyed Listening to the distant battle at Bentonville Entering Goldsborough Meeting Sherman Grant's congratulations His own plans Sketch of Sherman's march Lee and Johnston's correspondence Their gloomy outlook Am made commandant of Twenty-third Corps Terry assigned to Tenth Schofield promoted in the Regular Army Stanton's proviso Ill effects of living on the country Stopping it in North Carolina Camp jubilee over the fall of Richmond Changes in Sherman's plans Our march on Smithfield House-burning News of Lee's surrender Overtures from Governor Vance Entering Raleigh A mocking-bird's greeting Further negotiations as to North Carolina Johnston proposes an armistice Broader scope of negotiations The Southern people desire peace Terrors of non-combatants assuaged News of Lincoln's assassination Precautions to preserve order The dawn of peace.
He died fighting for his country; and for his sake the voice of man's love has never again entered my heart! I knew a true man, and could be true also. Would to God I were with him! You man-trapping, land-reaving, house-burning Sasunnach, do your worst! I care not." She ceased, and the spell was broken. "Come, come!" said one of the men impatiently.
We had with us the old sheriff, Jim Peters, a good officer in this county, as you know, before now. We had with us every white voter in this precinct, every tax-payer. We found them, these levee-cutting, house-burning fools, right at their work. We left some of them dead there, and run some into the cane, and we took the balance over to that church of theirs which you saw.
He died fighting for his country; and for his sake the voice of man's love has never again entered my heart! I knew a true man, and could be true also. Would to God I were with him! You man-trapping, land-reaving, house-burning Sasunnach, do your worst! I care not." She ceased, and the spell was broken. "Come, come!" said one of the men impatiently.
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