Convenience, depredation, the compassing of by-ends, rather than any loving communion, is too often its intent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
If a depredation was committed in the night, the dawn of morning found the sufferer on the trail of the marauder. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
The archbishop went on to envisage new regulatory frameworks to protect the environment from economic depredation. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop calls for action on environment to head off social crisis] Reference
Rulers superseded rulers in Mexico in rapid succession, but still there was no change in this system of depredation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
In view, however, of the pending depredation claims against this fund and other considerations, the Secretary of the. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
By this time the Rebels had collected a very considerable force and every night committed some outrage and depredation. From Wordnik.com. [An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798.] Reference
All the feathers require to be touched with the solution in order that they may be preserved from the depredation of the moth. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
They had invaded the enemy's country, made prisoners, and captured arms and flags; and without committing a single depredation. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
These form objects of traffic or objects of depredation, and in this way pass from tribe to tribe over great tracts of country. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Against poverty and tyranny, against ecological depredation and the marginalization of the indigenous peoples and their wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Hope for Latin America: Obama's Nobel] Reference
Dikman's participation in the depredation of Cypriot heritage in the occupied part of the island was suspected as early as 1982. From Wordnik.com. [From Cyprus to Munich] Reference
PAUL BREMER, AMERICAN ADMINISTRATOR: If Saddam taught them nothing else, he taught Iraqis how to endure the depredation of thugs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2003] Reference
Habitual drunkenness, destruction of private property, and depredation on house furniture, add to the list of charges against him. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Katherine made a discovery that centered all interest in unaffected earnest upon the latest depredation of their enemy, or enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation] Reference
Rodney heard tales of wickedness and depredation and cunning, that almost led him to doubt whether there was any honesty among men. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton] Reference
In order to strengthen civil society, and roll back its depredation by the state, we need more strategic information from the shires. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
The consul, after he had repeatedly carried depredation through the entire country of the enemy, returned to Rome with great glory and booty. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The whole thing was possible, of course, and it might be that trade, uninterrupted by robber depredation, would provide greater taxes than before. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Confederates should be included in the peace, provided that they committed no single act of depredation or hostility for a period of three months. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
The depredation that supermarkets visit upon the small shopkeepers whose prices they undercut is Mr. Blond's exemplar of such free-market thuggery. From Wordnik.com. [The Busybody Society] Reference
At the foot of the Pyramids he deplored the chastisement inflicted by an Arab sheik upon one of his native servants who had committed a similar depredation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
His horses, cattle and sheep which he had bought since the last depredation were watched with great vigilance, as no one could foretell what the next hour would bring forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
The two desperadoes now began walking back and forth through the yard, displaying their weapons and threatening to shoot any one that accused them of committing any depredation. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Even the "depredation" of private manuscript collections in the. From Wordnik.com. [Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40] Reference
Deputies, for various purposes of fraud and depredation. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Farmers have depredation permits and the FARMERS KILL GRAZING ANIMALS. From Wordnik.com. [To hunt or not to hunt?: The online debate over the South Mountain Reservation deer hunt] Reference
We endure traffic gridlock, urban sprawl and environmental depredation. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH DEARTH] Reference
Brigandage has involved a great deal of depredation upon foreign interests. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Mr. Mickley himself intimated that he suspected the quarter from which the depredation had come. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
The quantity and quality of wild food plants and the depredation of wild pigs in the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
'The mine owners, he acknowledged, clothed their capitalist depredation in negrophile philanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 11] Reference
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