New England, however, cannot be utterly depopulated of its old stocks, for at every turn you come up against those good old Puritan names which bespeak a longer ancestry than many an English peer can claim.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Earth would be smashed; wrecked; depopulated, made like the moon is now!
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
Two days before he had gone southeast from the Nile on an expedition for slaves, and it was not known when he would return, as the nearer localities were so depopulated that it was necessary to seek for human chattels very far.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz