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The Indians came to see him, and protested that it was only a few bad young men who had been depredating, and that all would be well and the young men held in check if the agent would but issue the arms and ammunition.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Hunting for “depredating” Indians, they came upon a group of twenty-seven of them skinning buffalo.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

May 1st, 2006 at 8:31 pm self-depredating as in, well the way Don Imus ripped into Clinton.

Firedoglake » Funny Guy 2006

To the ignominy of having received pecuniary obligations from the Marchioness Chamfort, or any other lady of intrigue, as the Count De Villefort had been informed, or of having been engaged in the depredating schemes of gamesters, Valancourt had never submitted; and these were some of such scandals as often mingle with truth, against the unfortunate.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Propane cannons have long been used to scare depredating birds from agricultural fields.

Archive 2004-06-01 John L. Trapp 2004

Propane cannons have long been used to scare depredating birds from agricultural fields.

Ban the Cannons John L. Trapp 2004

From the earliest times these marauders had been in the habit of depredating on the shores of the Mediterranean.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

The criminal records of the county show that nine-tenths of the offenses are committed by the colored population, and I think the experience of every citizen who resides near a settlement will testify to their depredating habits.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

A gruesome statue on St. Sebald's in Nüremberg represents the puritanical idea of "the world," by exhibiting a good-looking young woman, whose back is that of a corpse; the shroud is open, and the half decomposed body is displayed, with snakes and toads depredating upon it.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Ottowas are the most depredating, drunken, and ferocious in Ohio.

A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America