| 1. | To ransack Troy, within whose strong immure. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | pleased To ransack in the tas of bodies dead. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | They'll ransack that castle," he remarked with evident approval. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | He made me ransack the house for a flask, which he filled with whiskey and we lined every available pocket with packets of biscuits and slices of meat. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 5. | "No, never we might do what we pleased ransack her desk and her workbox, and turn her drawers inside out and she was so good-natured, she would give us anything we asked for.. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |