maurauders

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now, it would be very possible that even to-night a band of such maurauders might make an attack on the bank, and carry off all the money in the safe." "Oh!" said the colonel, "that's the game, is it?" "That," I replied, "is the game; and a very neat game too, if you'll play it properly." "And what will they say in Europe, when they hear the Provisional Government is looting private property?"

Anthony Hope - A Man of Mark

But danger from maurauders in a disturbed country was a more formidable subject of apprehension, and the thought armed Alice, who was naturally high spirited, with such desperate courage, that she snatched a pistol from the wall, on which some fire-arms hung, and while she screamed to her father to awake, had the presence of mind to present it at the intruder.

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

And," sez I, "it would be a good thing for lots of wimmen, who have got lots of silver, if it hain't in their bodies, if they had a guard a-walkin' round 'em with rifles to keep off maurauders." Why, there wuzn't nothin' brung up that he believed in, or that he didn't act morbid over.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair

But instead of driving the Spaniards out of this province, he hastened across the Rhine to secure for his needy troops shelter and subsistence in Alsace. The open countries on which this swarm of maurauders threw themselves were converted into frightful deserts, and only by enormous contributions could the cities purchase an exemption from plunder.

Friedrich Schiller - The Thirty Years War — Complete

But instead of driving the Spaniards out of this province, he hastened across the Rhine to secure for his needy troops shelter and subsistence in Alsace. The open countries on which this swarm of maurauders threw themselves were converted into frightful deserts, and only by enormous contributions could the cities purchase an exemption from plunder.

Friedrich Schiller - The History of the Thirty Years' War

But instead of driving the Spaniards out of this province, he hastened across the Rhine to secure for his needy troops shelter and subsistence in Alsace. The open countries on which this swarm of maurauders threw themselves were converted into frightful deserts, and only by enormous contributions could the cities purchase an exemption from plunder.

Friedrich Schiller - The Works of Frederich Schiller

"Peace to thy parting soul, brother!" said Warner, bending over the man. "Poor sufferer!" said Sibyll to the boy; "cheer thee, we will send succour; thou mayest live yet!" "Water! water! hell and torture! water, I say!" groaned the man; "one drop of water!" It was the captain of the maurauders who had captured the wanderers. "Thine arm! lift me! move me!

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Volume 09

But instead of driving the Spaniards out of this province, he hastened across the Rhine to secure for his needy troops shelter and subsistence in Alsace. The open countries on which this swarm of maurauders threw themselves were converted into frightful deserts, and only by enormous contributions could the cities purchase an exemption from plunder.

Friedrich Schiller - The Thirty Years War — Volume 02

"Peace to thy parting soul, brother!" said Warner, bending over the man. "Poor sufferer!" said Sibyll to the boy; "cheer thee, we will send succour; thou mayest live yet!" "Water! water! hell and torture! water, I say!" groaned the man; "one drop of water!" It was the captain of the maurauders who had captured the wanderers. "Thine arm! lift me! move me!

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Last of the Barons — Complete