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The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty.

From Time Magazine Archive

This course punishes the innocent and rewards the guilty, because the property taken by the depredator is of more value than the slight percentage he loses.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The sight of her old neighbourly depredator shivering at the door in tatters, the very oddity of his appeal, touched a soft spot in the spinster’s heart.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Uncle Denis had been busily employed in forming a trap in which he hoped to catch the depredator.

From With Axe and Rifle by Meyer, H.

The depredator was still brandishing the miserable instrument, which he had borrowed for the occasion of the fellow who cut the company's hair in the "Owl House."

From The Drummer Boy by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)