The Devil's Dictionary: Plunder

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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PLUNDER

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To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

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