例文・使い方で印象づける「ransacking」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...It was probably the ransacking ofthe Don’s library and the discussion on the books of chivalry that firstsuggested it to him that his idea was capable of development... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
...If, in ransacking history, they are lucky enough to discover a courtesan who can be billed as a “king’s favorite,” they appear to smack their lips exultantly...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...As he talked tothe utterly crestfallen pup, he was ransacking a drawer of his desk insearch of a dogwhip he had put there long ago and had never hadoccasion to use...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...One collector tells with gusto how he "worked his way" through an orchard, ransacking every tree, and leaving, as he believed, not one nest behind him...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...And lo, the giant is overthrown! Incontinently the otherdevours him, ransacking his belly...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...The grub is hatched; it pierces the belly of the Cetonia-larva at the requisite point; it plunges its long neck into the entrails, ransacking them and filling itself to repletion...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...Two or three centuriesago, when the fever of discovering and ransacking the catacombsof the Via Salaria was at its height, some one foundhis way to the crypt, and committed purely wanton destruction...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...Everybody was frantic over this loss, and two brave yeomen sacrificed their lives in ransacking the burning house seeking that valuable personage...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
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