Choice may be made by ransacking observed or generated sounds, which may have been made randomly or systematically.
Clark paints that new academic world in mordant terms, ransacking university archives for appointment intrigues, visitation reports, secret evaluations, the margin-scribbling of ministers and underlings, and the self-presentations of office-seekers.
We do not base our proposal upon legal construction or upon the ransacking of historical dust-heaps.
There are complaints of harassment by soldiers and the ransacking of empty houses.
They may demand the ransacking of the books from beginning to end, and go into the whole business.
It seems strange to me that we should differentiate between one type of break-in, ransacking and seizure, and another.
There was ransacking of drawers, wardrobes and so forth.
The destruction frequently included ransacking the priest's house, and sometimes private houses suspected of sheltering church goods.
