...Like a feline creature on the prowl, he was watching the prey that had so nearly succumbed to his talons...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... Strange sounds came to them from out the dense network of trees—the screeching of night-birds, the weird call of the owls, the swift and furtive tread of wild beasts on the prowl...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...I did not venture to prowl round Efoua; but slidthe bark door aside and looked out to get a breath of fresh air...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...Some of thecountry is extremely wild and rocky, and affordsmany a retired den for the lions, who descend fromthe rocks and prowl abroad for prey in greatnumbers...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...The scavengers ofZinder are, therefore, the vultures and hyænas: theformer wing the air and dart on their prey by day,and the latter prowl the streets by night...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...Those cats which have a strong tendency to prowl after game, generally get destroyed by traps...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...You findhis tracks there all about, and the marks of his killing; but thoughyou watch and prowl all day and come home in the twilight, you willlearn little...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
...In thissacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time ofthe day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might beseen to prowl...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...April and May arethe months when the catchpoles are out on the prowl...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...
About the town pigs and chickens roam at will, while half-starved hunting dogs prowl about below the kitchens and fight formorsels which drop from above ()...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...A word may be pardoned, in relation to the too universal practice ofpermitting swine to prowl along the highways, and in the yards and lawnsof the farm house...
Lewis Falley Allen 「Rural Architecture」
..."I had a chance to prowl around the Jouret house a little while waitingfor Miss Jouret to dress...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...Besides the manager and the jackaroos, there were a few boundary riders to prowl round the fences of the vast paddocks...
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 「Three Elephant Power」
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