spoil (n.) Old form(s): spoiles , spoyle
slaughter, destruction, ruination
1H4 III.iii.10[Falstaff to Bardolph] Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me
1H6 IV.ii.26[General to Talbot] death doth front thee with apparent spoil
3H6 V.iv.80[Queen to her followers, of the enemy] yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil
Cor II.ii.118[Cominius to all, of Coriolanus' onslaught] as if / 'Twere a perpetual spoil
JC III.i.206[Antony to dead Caesar, of his killers] Signed in thy spoil, and crimsoned in thy lethe
JC V.iii.7[Titinius to Cassius, of Brutus] his soldiers fell to spoil
R3 IV.iv.290[Queen Elizabeth to King Richard, of her daughter] she cannot choose but hate thee, / Having bought love with such a bloody spoil
Sonn.100.12[] make Time's spoils despised everywhere
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