Continuing, he charged the general with inciting his employés to depredate on the fences and fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference

By degrees the dwellings became filled with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

By degrees the dwellings became filled up with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge from whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)] Reference

Fire-breathing, venomous once, they no longer now depredate our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erotica Romana] Reference

Not a thief or a robber can live or depredate among their tenants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

Of course hungry and half-starved squirrels will depredate, -- on birds 'nests, fruit and gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

The men themselves are strong, able-bodied workers, and I shall miss them; but once having begun to depredate upon me, nothing will stop them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

Not that they requite his indulgence with ingratitude, for they do not depredate very flagrantly on his estate; but because their pilferings and misdeeds occasion loud murmurs in the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference

Families grow jealous and envious of their neighbors; some essay to be leading families; they overhear conversations and domestic disagreements; become privy to improper conduct; they depredate upon each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The religious instruction of the Negroes in the United States,] Reference

Thus supported, Ewell's main body resumed its march to Carlisle, which it occupied on the 27th; gathering large supplies there and along the road by means of foraging parties sent out to depredate on the farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI] Reference

The village so transferred, being removed from the observation and responsibility of the local authorities, often becomes a safe refuge for the bad characters of the district, who thence depredate upon the country around with impunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

An English statesman may further ask how it is that so much disorder can prevail in a small territory like Oude without the gangs, to which it must give rise, passing over the border to depredate upon the bordering districts of its neighbours.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference

Whatever concern may have been felt by either of the belligerent powers lest private armed cruisers or other vessels in the service of one might be fitted out in the ports of this country to depredate on the property of the other, all such fears have proved to be utterly groundless.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference

Genet was provided with blank commissions, both naval and military; and while enjoying the flattering attentions at Charleston for several days, he undertook to authorize the fitting out and arming of vessels in that port as privateers, to depredate upon the commerce of England and other nations at war with France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference

There is, also, this advantage, there being several plants in each hill, the cut-worm has to depredate pretty severely before he really injures the piece; again, should the seed not vegetate in any of the hills, every farmer will appreciate the advantage of having healthy plants growing so near at hand that they can be transferred to the vacant spaces with their roots so undisturbed that their growth is hardly checked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop] Reference

That under all the views presented by the subject, to infer or imply a power so potent for evil, and certainly not specifically delegated, from the clause in respect to "necessary and proper" auxiliary means to specified ends, would substitute means for ends; would utterly emasculate the Constitution, and turn loose the government to depredate upon the rights of the States, and the rights and liberty of the citizen, with no restraint but the sword of revolution in perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Cato" on constitutional "money" and legal tender. In twelve numbers from the Charleston Mercury.] Reference

They then go out and depredate the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference

23. depredate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

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