razzia

How to use razzia in a sentence

• When day dawned it was ascertained that this daring razzia had cost Mahomed a hundred horses.

  Some Heroes of Travel | W. H. Davenport Adams

• She had been sold by auction, as usual, the day after the return from the razzia, and had fallen to the lot of one of the men.

  Some Heroes of Travel | W. H. Davenport Adams

• A razzia was ordered in the night, and its result was eight hundred prisoners and twelve thousand head of cattle.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 420, October 1850 | Various

• The Algerine coast has enriched our language with at least two words, respectively warlike and peaceful—razzia and fantasia.

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science | Various

• It was the people of the same tribe who formed a razzia expedition against us.

  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 | James Richardson