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Definition of Plunderous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunderous

Literary usage of Plunderous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one. ..."

2. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one. ..."

3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... plunderous, all of them ; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house ... in our Royal presence, to one of these official plunderous gentlemen, ..."

4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Cossacks, indeed^ were a plunderous "wild crew; but the Russians kept them mostly without the " gates. The regular Russians were civil and orderly, ..."

5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Cossacks, indeed, were a plunderous wild crew; but ' the Russians kept them mostly without the gates. The regular '. Russians were civil and orderly, ..."

6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one. ..."

7. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Voracious, plunderous, all of them; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house which has no master, or a mere imaginary one. ..."

8. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... plunderous, all of them ; like hounds, long hungry, got into a rich house ... in our Royal presence, to one of these official plunderous gentlemen, ..."

9. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Cossacks, indeed^ were a plunderous "wild crew; but the Russians kept them mostly without the " gates. The regular Russians were civil and orderly, ..."

10. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Cossacks, indeed, were a plunderous wild crew; but ' the Russians kept them mostly without the gates. The regular '. Russians were civil and orderly, ..."

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