depredation

• Com to apprehend that the public treasury would be the next object of depredation, and that a pretext would be sought for it, in the reprisal which had just been made. —  Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
• The work is compiled chiefly from the Duart Manuscripts 97] Hist. Notices, p. 209 98] See History of Iona by Lachlan Maclean, Esq., Glasgow ROB ROY MACGREGOR CAMPBELL The Clan Gregiour," according to an anonymous writer of the seventeenth century, "is a race of men so utterly infamous for thieving, depredation, and murder, that after many Acts of the Council of Scotland against them, at length in the reign of King Charles the First, the Parliament made a strict Act suppressing the very name." —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• Nightly outrage and daily depredation are already at their height, and not only the masters of frames, who are obnoxious on account of their occupation, but persons in no degree connected with the malecontents or their oppressors, are liable to insult and pillage I am very much obliged to you for the trouble you have taken on my account, and beg you to believe me ever your obliged and sincere amp;c LETTER 89. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• With poaching much more evil is connected: a habit of nightly depredation, a custom of prowling in the dark for prey, produces in time a disrelish for honest labor. —  Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
• The crime of the depredation is none the less, because the subject is ignorant or unconscious of it. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

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