He was a mild-mannered man with a long thin black beard and a slight stoop, and his experience with fire-arms was confined to the occasional shooting of Depredatory crows, squirrels, and rats with an ancient fowling-piece.
"Captain Jinks, Hero"
Ernest Crosby
Various were the measures adopted to check this Depredatory spirit.
"A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson"
Watkin Tench
Their raids across the border have been a sore affliction to the people of Texas; and it is important that the first promising occasion should be taken to secure their return to the United States, and their establishment where they may be carefully watched, and restrained from their Depredatory habits, or summarily punished if they persist in them.
"The Indian Question (1874)"
Francis A. Walker