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Various were the measures adopted to check this depredatory spirit.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

Here the Apache and Camanche Indians always cross when on their depredatory tramps into Mexico.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

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.

Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

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

Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro

Yet the fact is that the high rate of exchange and the depredatory U-boat represented almost identically the same danger.

The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

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.

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 James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908

On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.

Mystère de la chambre jaune. English Gaston Leroux 1897

I pass through a village where a depredatory man-eater has been carrying off women and children within the last few days.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Pirate was lying at the open door, watching the movements of Thor (the raven), whose depredatory proclivities were well known to the dog.

Viking Boys Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby 1891

As Indians disappeared or succumbed, the solid row of pales gave place to a log-fence, which served well to keep out depredatory animals.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881