Crossword-Solution: RAPINES 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off.

The Jews complied with these persuasions of theirs, and dispersed themselves; but still there were a great number who betook themselves to robbing, in hopes of impunity; and rapines and insurrections of the bolder sort happened over the whole country.

Till then thy wrath is just.” Ulysses burn’d With high disdain, and sternly thus return’d: “All, all the treasure that enrich’d our throne Before your rapines, join’d with all your own, If offer’d, vainly should for mercy call; ’Tis you that offer, and I scorn them all; Your blood is my demand, your lives the prize, Till pale as yonder wretch each suitor lies.

And again the studies of those times, you shall find, besides wars, incursions, and rapines, which were then almost every where betwixt states adjoining (the use of leagues and confederacies being not then known), were to populate by multitude of wives and generation, a thing at this day in the waster part of the West-Indies principally affected; and to build sometimes for habitation towns and cities, sometimes for fame and memory monuments, pyramids, colosses, and the like.

Every place is full of idle people, accustomed to arms, and lazy in everything but rapines and depredations.