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Definition of Ransackers
1. ransacker [n] - See also: ransacker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ransackers
Literary usage of Ransackers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1896)
"... so their daily trade in spoiling hath made them the cunningest ransackers of
houses, and the best able to bring a spoil unto a quick market, ..."
2. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"Its members were "corpse-hunting, graveyard- ransackers." The Radicals had defeated
Seymour and Blair in 1868 by eloquent accounts of outrages in the South; ..."
3. Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588 by Albert Frederick Pollard (1903)
"in all warlike stratagem[s]; so their daily trade in spoiling hath made them the
cunningest ransackers of houses, and the best able to bring a spoil unto a ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"... who to-day have brought their implements to light for the first time since
autumn set about their task with feelings o no common or vulgar ransackers. ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"They have been spurned by scholars, and but passingly respected in the studies
of school-boys, those ransackers of the bypaths of classic history, ..."
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