depredators

Perth to battles and skirmishes with the restless Highland depredators, and with other enemies, foreign and domestic.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The farm-house or mansion-house, (for, from its size and appearance, it might have been the one or the other,) was a large but low building, and the walls of the out-houses were sufficiently strong to resist any band of casual depredators.

Castle Dangerous 2008

An alarm was at length given, military were called in, the depredators were pursued, the booty recovered, and Wilson and Robertson tried and condemned to death, chiefly on the evidence of an accomplice.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

By the end of the first fortnight of December these works were finished, and Prospect Heights — that is to say, a sort of irregular pentagon, having a perimeter of nearly four miles, surrounded by a liquid belt — was completely protected from depredators of every description.

The Mysterious Island 2005

A young man, therefore, in my circumstances was not entitled to be highly indignant at the mistake which confounded him with this worshipful class of depredators.

Rob Roy 2005

“Thus tempted and urged by despair,” said I, seeing Mr. Jarvie did not proceed in his narrative, “I suppose your kinsman became one of those depredators you have described to us?”

Rob Roy 2005

By the end of the first fortnight of December these works were finished, and Prospect Heights — that is to say, a sort of irregular pentagon, having a perimeter of nearly four miles, surrounded by a liquid belt — was completely protected from depredators of every description.

The Mysterious Island 2005

It was remarked as extraordinary rapacity, when the Border depredators condescended to make prey of the accursed race, whom the fiend made his habitation.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.

Ivanhoe 2004

America, had suffered famine, cold and danger, and men still sterner-featured, once nightly depredators in our over-grown metropolis; men bred from their cradle to see the whole machine of society at work for their destruction.

The Last Man 2003