Meaning of Ransack | Babel Free

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Synonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).

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“And euermore their vvicked Capitayn / Prouoked them the breaches to aſſay, / Somtimes vvith threats, ſomtimes vvith hope of gayn, / VVhich by the ranſack of that peece they ſhould attayn.”

“VVhat ſecret corner? VVhat unvvonted vvay / Has ſcap'd the ranſack of my rambling thoughts?”

“A soldier in the general ransack found a jar of olives which this man had buried, and in which he had concealed some pieces of gold; […]”

“[H]e is decided in his belief that the signet was an emerald, and as precious for the work of the artist as its own intrinsic value. Perhaps this stone also will turn up in the ransack of the sultan's treasury.”

“"There are no official papers here," he said, after another short ransack; "there must have been some if this desk is the one. Have you dared to delude me by showing the wrong desk?"”

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