Determined to discover the depredator, they concealed themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference

“Certainly, sir, to the best of my power — naething for naething — I ken the rule of the office,” said the ex-depredator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

The angry officer, quite out of breath, could only point at the depredator, who, unaware of the approach of any interruption, still continued to enjoy his unhallowed meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference

The brute was a well known depredator among the herds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

I ken the rule of the office, '' said the ex-depredator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

For shame, O sinful depredator, O defrauder of the poor! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference

It was not, strictly speaking, as a professed depredator that Rob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

Interestingly, not many people know that KD expands as 'known depredator'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

He never kept his word; he was a great depredator, and iniquitous in all his actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

Frenchman as I did of destroying the filthy little nightly depredator just mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer] Reference

He was an old depredator; and had before encountered angry authors, and artful lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hugh Trevor] Reference

I am surnamed the crashing thunder and the deluging cloud, and called Feyaz the depredator!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

But Monstri was not the only depredator who found the Gironde a fitting theatre for his piracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre] Reference

The depredator who is fortunate enough to escape the former, is seldom able to elude the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.] Reference

Will declared their intention of watching that night for the depredator, her anger vanished in fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage] Reference

Celebrated preserver, not depredator (as he has been most slanderously called) of the Phidian Marbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II] Reference

If a man is stopped on the highway, he may shoot the depredator: and he will receive the thanks of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination] Reference

It would seem as if it was too well screened; it was in such a spot as any depredator would be apt to explore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

We watched for several following nights, but if Master Bruin had been the depredator, he was too wary to repeat his visits.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Axe and Rifle] Reference

I greet thee — I welcome thee, black in complexion, fair in deeds, knight of the tribes, I am called Feyaz the depredator!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

The depredator has intercepted the rewards of toil, and marred the image of justice, and dimmed the lustre of faith in men's minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deerbrook] Reference

There was a general exclamation of dismay as the curly back of the old depredator was seen through the trees making off with the booty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Stone House] Reference

It was not, strictly speaking, as a professed depredator that Rob Roy now conducted his operations, but as a sort of contractor for the police; in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference

For the theft of provisions, or of clothes from his neighbour, a case yet more common, and more natural to footpads, the convict depredator is shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference

On the other hand, the capital and profits are at much risk, as any lawless depredator can, in security, shoot and carry off any number of these animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference

The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

As this was an article that could not be spared, Captain Ross sent a man from the ship, who pursued the depredator, and, with some difficulty, recovered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe] Reference

It is a great depredator in gardens, which it has been known to plunder of carrots, turnips, and maize -- the stalks of which it cuts close down to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

An open heath, a close plantation, were alike subjects of apprehension; and the whistle of a shepherd lad was instantly converted into the signal of a depredator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy] Reference

Our smaller woodpeckers are sometimes accused of injuring the apple and other fruit trees, but the depredator is probably the larger and rarer yellow-bellied species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference

– He had besides trespassed on some remote corners of her manors; and her gamekeeper had represented him as a terrible depredator among her partridges, pheasants, and hares.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Manor House] Reference

Melons the depredator -- Melons, despoiled by larger boys of his ill-gotten booty, or reckless and indiscreetly liberal; Melons -- now a fugitive on some neighboring house-top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urban Sketches] Reference

A depredator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference