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Sentences ending with spoils

The camp-followers of proselyting sects have come in at the close of every life where they could get in, to strip the languishing soul of its thoughts, and carry them off as spoils. [6]
He makes the nominations, he dickers and trades for the elections, and at the end he divides the spoils. [4]
You have honoured me with your friendship, Charles Fox, and I may take the liberty to add that you seem to love power more than spoils. [9]
Oh, that those halcyon days of the little wars would come again, when a captain could ride out almost any time at the held of his band of mercenaries and see honest fighting and divide honest spoils! [9]

Short sentences using spoils

The spoils of Rome! [9]
The spoils of America! [9]
It spoils everything. [11]

More example sentences with the word spoils in them

They do it well, but it always spoils my devotion. [6]
But what shall we call the fault-finder, who spoils his friend's innocent enjoyment of a happy morning by his sharp reproaches? [10]
I had behaved valiantly, and when we came to the division of the spoils Rameses allowed me to choose first. [10]
Year after year they came down from their mountains and fought shoulder to shoulder, and year after year they carried back the lion's share of the spoils between them. [9]
They can bear the rain and the breezes, and be all the better for them; but perpetual contradiction is a pelting hailstorm, which spoils their growth and tends to kill them out altogether. [6]
There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
You remind me that the Church in old time accepted gifts from the spoils of war, and I will add of rapine and murder. [9]
It grieves me that he should have a secret from me, and sometimes it spoils my sleep, thinking of it, but I will put it out of my mind; it shall not trouble my happiness, which is otherwise full to overflowing. [5]
The storm that tears its leaves has paid tribute to its strength, and it breasts the tornado clad in the spoils of a hundred hurricanes. [6]
It was the song of a bannered army, marching over the battle-field with conquering voices, and swords as yet unsheathed and red, carrying the spoils of conquest behind the laurelled captain of the host. [11]
He has saved something from the spoils of war, but other veterans I could mention are not so fortunate. [9]
We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. [5]
Snatch the curious prize, Give it a place among thy treasured spoils Fossil and relic,--corals, encrinites, The fly in amber and the fish in stone, The twisted circlet of Etruscan gold, Medal, intaglio, poniard, poison-ring, --Place for the Memphian beetle with thine hoard! [6]
It spoils my pleasure, it clouds my fancy. [10]
One rash request often altogether spoils the patron's inclination for granting favors. [10]
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. [12]
Joan's eyes were now on the sky, now on the sail, and now on the land, weighing as wisely as her father the advantage of the wind, yet dwelling on that cave where skeletons kept ward over the spoils of a pirate ship. [11]
My idea is not to fatten the lecture agents and lyceums on the spoils, but put all the ducats religiously into two equal piles, and say to the artist and lecturer, "Absorb these. [5]
A house is never a home until we have crusted it with the spoils of a hundred lives besides those of our own past. [6]
This was a man who had got his position originally by nepotism, and represented the worst elements of a national life where the spoils system is rooted in the popular mind. [11]
Yes, and by long and by last, he will make the man pay who spoils his home. [11]
It spoils a jest to harp on it after one has had one's laugh. [5]
Although they succeeded in defeating the nominees almost by scores, they too were defeated, and the spoils chucklingly borne off by the common enemy. [7]
Explain in note how all warmth approaching blood heat spoils fops and flounders. [6]
And it is horrible!--I wish I had never discovered it; it gives me dark moments, it spoils my happiness, it makes me shiver and tremble and shudder. [5]
If I killed him, it spoils everything--everything. [11]
He did not grasp the meaning behind the words, and he said to him: "Oh, a good salary--as good as that of a general, with a commission and the spoils of war! [11]
The Hotel du Gouverneur spoils us for all other places in New Caledonia. [11]
Shon was my good friend, but this spoils all that. [11]
The banker-dinosaurs, the gigantic ones, were in Wall Street, and strove among themselves for the industrial spoils accumulated by their predecessors. [9]
Every where in everything--she spoils it all! [10]
In other days churches were built and endowed with the spoils of war, and did not disdain the money. [9]
Fifty handsome youths bore to her in each hand a dish of gold, one filled with coin, and the other with precious stones,--a small part only, these hundred vessels of treasure, of the spoils the Goths brought from her country. [4]
I had now become the indispensable associate of the few who divided the spoils, I was to have a share in these myself. [9]
If only the banquet is not interfered with, and so long as nothing spoils your pleasure!--Whether I die or no, no one cares! [10]
He pecks away at all the bunches, and spoils as many as he can. [4]
With the world-conquering Alexander, the world-embracing Aristotle, appropriating anatomy and physiology, among his manifold spoils of study, marched abreast of his royal pupil to wider conquests. [3]
With Philip as adopted son and heir there would be fewer spoils of office; with Philip as duke there would be none at all, for the instinct of distrust and antipathy was mutual. [11]
It came to a division of the spoils of war for the year; a great heap of treasure lay ready for each of his followers, and the charioteer had to choose before all the others. [10]
The other, after a conscientious effort to build a terrestrial paradise out of the same materials, with the addition of a "grave and stately stork," spoils it all by blundering upon the ghastly truth at the last. [5]
When you find a beach strewed with the shells and other spoils that belonged once to the deep sea, you know the tide has been there, and that the winds and waves have wrestled over its naked sands. [6]

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