...They would rise to supremacy, and then wouldbecome rapacious tyrants over those whom they would regard as being nomore than animals...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...As a hunter of big game he was more formidable than anythree dingoes, and, withal, never rapacious...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
... or burying himself in his hibernating nest or den; or flying from some rapacious enemy...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...But the sea is not without its dangers, for the rapacious Black-backedGull frequently attacks them, and, but for the self-devotionand bravery of the mother bird, would commit great havoc amongthem...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The tiger is one of the most beautiful, but atthe same time one of the most rapacious and destructive ofthe whole animal race...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Had these little wolves been asnumerous as they were rapacious, there would soon have been left nolife at all in the pool but theirs and that of the frogs...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...Certain rapacious birds who are awkward in hunting, especially Kites, make up for their lack of skill by audacious impudence...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...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」
...While those miserable degraded personsthus scantily subsist, all the produce of their unwearied toil, is takenaway to satiate their rapacious master...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
..., and as long as he lived did much to moderatethat monarch’s rapacious attacks on the wealth of the Church...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...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」
...But still the rapacious U-boat commander was unsatisfied, though Professor Stevens began to have doubts if his craft could lift that massive weight of plunder to the top of the plateau...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931」
...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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