On the following Tuesday I was out with my dog and gun, in pursuit of such game as I could find within the territory of Linden-Car; but finding none at all, I turned my arms against the hawks and carrion crows, whose
depredations, as I suspected, had deprived me of better prey.
Soon after this, an action was brought against the gamekeeper by Squire Western (the gentleman in whose manor the partridge was killed), for
depredations of the like kind.
On they came to the portals of Kulonga's hut, the very one in which Tarzan had wrought his
depredations.
Moved by these vague yet all-powerful urgings the ape-man lay awake one night in the little thorn boma that protected, in a way, his party from the
depredations of the great carnivora of the jungle.
All the exploits of this lady of fame, in her
depredations upon mankind, stand as so many warnings to honest people to beware of them, intimating to them by what methods innocent people are drawn in, plundered and robbed, and by consequence how to avoid them.
Without the one or the other, the former would be absolutely unable to defend himself against the
depredations of the latter.
Miss Ada's cushions were henceforth safe from his
depredations, and when he met Anne on the street, or in Redmond's halls, his bow was icy in the extreme.
First was the necessity for ridding the jungle of man-eaters, and it was only after
depredations by these grim and terrible scourges that a lion hunt was organized.
There could be little doubt, for instance, that this very ship's crew, though no unfavourable specimens of the nautical brotherhood, had been guilty, as we should phrase it, of
depredations on the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern court of justice.
Should a war be the result of the precarious situation of European affairs, and all the unruly passions attending it be let loose on the ocean, our escape from insults and
depredations, not only on that element, but every part of the other bordering on it, will be truly miraculous.
And so it was that a score of the fleetest and most doughty warriors of the tribe set out in pursuit of Korak and Akut but a few minutes after they had left the scene of The Killer's many
depredations.
That is, if Shekels is out on
depredation and I can't get hold of him.