Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference

The one solitary advantage of these corporations is that they gather the depredatory birds together, and lead them to prey upon themselves instead of wandering abroad for the defeathering of the innocent and artless who abound even in these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

Upon his juncture with his tribe the effects of Dugingi's education soon displayed themselves; and having been caught and convicted of theft, and after a series of successful depredatory exploits, he was sentenced to two years 'penal servitude at the convict establishment in Cockatoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystère de la chambre jaune. English] Reference

I pass through a village where a depredatory man-eater has been carrying off women and children within the last few days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Yet the fact is that the high rate of exchange and the depredatory U-boat represented almost identically the same danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]

Pirate was lying at the open door, watching the movements of Thor (the raven), whose depredatory proclivities were well known to the dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viking Boys] Reference

United States, and their establishment where they may be carefully watched, and restrained from their depredatory habits, or summarily punished if they persist in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference

They are a stout, well-made, bold, warlike race of people; redoubtable neighbours to both nations of the Koriacs, who often feel the effects of their depredatory incursions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

In families living after a primitive manner of life, as this family did, the elder sons are invariably the companions of their fathers and accompany them on their depredatory raids.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference

Lord Enville saw, even more clearly than Caroline, all the consequences that were to be apprehended from the depredatory disposition of Mr. Fitzosborn; and he was equally aware how unequal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things By Their Right Names] Reference

The citizens of Southern New Mexico, having long suffered from their depredatory acts, loudly demanded that they be removed; and to comply with the wish of the people, as well as to prevent serious difficulties and possibly war, it was a year or two since decided to provide the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference

Abdalla had the good fortune to clear himfclf of the afperfions thrown on his character bv his enemies; and he was fent, with a confi - derable force, againfl infi. rgents in the province of S H A W J E H A N. ,77 of Bundela, and fome Rajas, who, from their a.p. hills, made depredatory incurfions into Behar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The history of Hindostan] Reference

You do not need to be told what office it was that he was called to fill, and how he was gradually schooled for it by his training in Egyptian learning, by his military experiences in an expedition against the depredatory tribes of Ethiopia, in his voluntary exile from the place of his birth, in his servitude and quiet meditations as keeper of Jethro's flocks, and in his sharp and prolonged contest with the Magicians of Pharaoh's court.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Assassinated President] Reference

318 the present Emperor Soliman, occupied the plains west of the city of Marocco (being an emigration from the Bedouin tribe of the same name in the Sahara); but their depredatory disposition made travelling through their territory unsafe; wherefore the Emperor, after endeavouring in vain to make an example of them, issued a decree that they should all to a man leave his dominions, and they were driven by his army out of their country to the south, and entered the Sahara.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference