For a time , the marauders seemed to hold aloof from the city itself , but as they kept on their course of pillage their appetite for plunder was whetted , and they looked with avaricious eyes at the city on the hill .

For a time the marauders seemed to hold aloof from the city itself , but as they kept on their course of pillage their appetite for plunder was whetted , and they looked with avaricious eyes at the city on the hill .
