What is "sackings"

Usage examples of "sackings".

The accounts of the sackings, fires and butcheries made him turn pale and gnash his teeth.

Upon reading in the papers the news of the shootings, sackings, burning of cities, and the dolorous flight of those who had seen their all reduced to ashes, she again felt the necessity of assuming the role of lady-assassin.

The rest of their time these heroes divide between damp caves where miscellaneous shady magicians wander about conjuring beasts, and the sackings of one defenseless city or another.

And he surfaced with a string of tales: the diaries of pilgrims and nobles, records of wars and sackings, the account of a thwarted love affair—and even a mention of one of my own ancestors, a different George Poole .

And will there be battles, forced marches, panics, exodi, sackings of towns?

To hear them talk, one would have imagined that all the previous ten thousand sackings and burnings in France had been but fables, and this one the only fact.