例文・使い方で印象づける「rapacious」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...And, had the pursuits of those men been different, they mighthave been as generous, as tender-hearted and just, as they areunfeeling, rapacious and cruel... 
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...Theyare very rapacious birds and live to a great extent,especially during the breeding season, upon the eggs and young of otherbirds such as Ducks, Murres and smaller Gulls...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Like the Great Horned Owls, they are very strong, fearless, and rapacious birds,feeding upon hares, squirrels and smaller mammals, as well as Grouse, Ptarmigan,etc...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Acts of this kind are moreoften seen in humming-birds than in birds of otherfamilies; and humming-birds do not appear todiscriminate between rapacious and herbivorousmammals...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
... or burying himself in his hibernating nest or den; or flying from some rapacious enemy...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...So far howeveras the farmer is concerned, this is probablybalanced by the reflection that a singleyoung cuckoo is so rapacious as to need allthe insect food available...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...Lastly, the cat, wild andtame, with all its varieties; less than any of the former, butlike them insidious, rapacious, and cruel...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Larks, a feeble race of birds, rise higher in the air than any rapacious bird, and this is often a cause of safety...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...One is tempted to believe that the male desires by this method to guarantee his female and her offspring against the attacks of squirrels or rapacious birds...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...The emaciated appearance of the dying figure, the boy's thoughtless inattention, andthe rapacious, unfeeling eagerness of the old nurse, are naturally and forcibly delineated...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
...Below them they saw the swiftly receding mass: the fleet of the Llottadiving headlong, drawn inexorably into the rapacious embrace of thevile creature of the heavens...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
...He came striding in thedirection of Inga, Dirk and Stantonand paused within a few feet of them,his rapacious eyes still fixed on thegirl...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930」
..."Here is a rapacious, deadly fungus we have been two centuries indeveloping...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930」
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