Butler, whose disposition it always was to employ all the technicalities of the law in defense of arbitrary measures against his enemies, never for one moment thought of depopulating New Orleans during his occupancy of that city.
So short work would be made In our depopulating Troy, this hardiest to invade Of all earth's cities.
Visigoths being beaten in Italy, had Aquitain granted them to retire into: and they invaded it with much violence, causing the Alans and Burgundians to retreat, who were then depopulating of it.
There is by this time much anger against depopulating landlords, much talk of the good customs of Henry VII.
His inhuman and impolitic course having led his minister to intimate that he was depopulating his kingdom by his frequent massacres, he replied: "Better be without subjects than to reign over heretics.
He then showed his remembrance of his popish oath by persecuting the Protestants, banishing their preachers, and depopulating the kingdom by an intolerance which caused emigrations of whole sections from his dominions.
Is it not the directest possible method of depopulating a country, and therefore in the end ruining it?
But neither are the squires and landlords to be excused; for to them is owing the depopulating of the country, the vast number of beggars, and the ruin of those few sorry improvements we had.
At page 149 he lets us into the secret of the depopulating process which has been going on in Central Africa the last fifty years.
At that time, too, the Welsh, fiercely raging against the Normans, and depopulating the county of Chester and part of Shropshire, obtained Anglesey by force of arms.
They frequently, therefore, by depopulating the country, irritated him to engage.
Bishop Gosfrith with his nephew, depopulating Bath, and Berkeley, and part of the county of Wilts, treasured up their spoils at Bristol.
They are needed to benefit the bodies of the heathen; for disease, the fruit of sin, is depopulating with amazing speed a large portion of the heathen world.
For one whose example has been salutary, the intercourse of thousands has left a loathsome disease, which with sure and rapid progress is depopulating the land.
All their force was employed indepopulating the country.
Thus the consuls, having entered the territories of the enemies on two different sides, strenuously vie with each other in depopulating the Volscians on the one hand, the Æqui on the other.
The protests against depopulating enclosure continue, and government reports and surveys show that enclosure for pasture was proceeding at as rapid a rate as in the sixteenth century.
The social consequences of so-called depopulating enclosure were serious, but they are not seen in their proper perspective when one imagines the condition of the evicted tenants to have been fairly good before they were dispossessed.
John Hales had protested against depopulating enclosures, in 1549, by appealing to the public spirit of landowners.
This more secret and insinuating way ofdepopulating our native land should be as stoutly resisted as the more open and defiant one, the result it produces being the same.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depopulating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
