例文・使い方で印象づける「preys」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... Wherever mice abound, serpents may be expected, for the one preys on the other... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I here found an insect which preys on ants; it is about an inch and a quarter long, as thick as a crow-quill, and covered with black hair...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Wherever the antelopes are in herds, wherever you find the wild horse, zebra, and giraffe, you will as certainly find the lion, for he preys upon them...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
... The "Southern barbarism" which deserves the serious attention of all people North and South, is the barbarism which preys upon weak and defenseless women...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett 「Southern Horrors」
...Although the structure of the bear shows him to be naturallyomnivorous, he rarely preys upon flesh in Ceylon, and his solitaryhabits whilst in search of honey and fruits render him timid andretiring...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The Singhalese distinguish one species of mongoos, which theydesignate "Hotambeya" and which they assert never preys uponserpents...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
..." Its habits are carnivorous, and degenerateinto cannibalism, as it preys on the weaker individuals of its ownspecies...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Theprey of everything that preys, he yet seems incapableof any measure of retaliation...
Ernest Thompson Seton 「Wild Animals at Home」
...It preys chiefly on small game—poultry, hares, and is saidto destroy small deer...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...It also preys on raccoons in the parts of its range where those animals are found and sometimes kills and eats the porcupine...
Elmer Harry Kreps 「Science of Trapping」
...The coyote preys on young deer and antelope and on small game, such as rabbits, prairie dogs, sage hens and badgers...
Elmer Harry Kreps 「Science of Trapping」
...Like the true Tyrant-birds it preys a great deal on large insects whenthey are abundant in the warm season, and is frequently seen catchingits prey in the air...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Here the bird digs with its sharp beak for the smallinsects it preys on...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Naturalists have long been aware that only one of our commonHawks habitually preys upon poultry while most of our species, byfeeding largely on meadow mice, are actually beneficial...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...It preys only on sheep rising their first year, the wool of which separates above, leaving the back quite exposed to the wet and cold...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...He preys exclusivelyon animals killed by himself, destroying a great quantity of gamesmall mammals, birds and reptiles...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Unlikethe Kestrel, which soars high in air and mostly preys on animalswhich when once seen have no power of escape, the Sparrow-Hawkis marked by its dashing, onward flight...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The Mantis-killing Tachytes, for instance, preys indiscriminately upon all the Mantides that occur in her neighbourhood...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...She is omnivorous, she preys on everything, down to her ownkind, should the occasion offer...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...The shed skin of a large Pacific rattlesnake(Crotalus viridis helleri) was found four feet inside the mouth ofa kangaroo rat burrow; probably this reptile preys on agilis...
Terry A. Vaughan 「Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California」
...It preys upon every animal it can master, and man himself sometimes falls a victim to its rapacity...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
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