28 examples of prowlers in sentences

And where the leader who shall shout and stir their hearts to fight? These are but empty braggarts, but prowlers of the night, Cut-throats and needy idlersand

LAYING PLANS TO HELP OBED X. TRAPS FOR NIGHT PROWLERS XI.

CHAPTER X TRAPS FOB NIGHT PROWLERS "Yuh see," remarked Obed, turning around as they drew near the first enclosure, where the parent foxes were confined behind the wire fencing, "I've just been adding a few finishing touches tuh this here trap scheme.

It wouldn't be safe for prowlers to show up here.

When we say of one and another, they are night prowlers, it is perhaps true only as the things they feed upon are more easily come by in the dark, and they know well how to adjust themselves to conditions wherein food is more plentiful by day.

He met it as a king should, with no vain effort or trembling, and it was wholly kind to take him so with four of his following rather than that the night prowlers should find him.

We hoped it was not too far out of the running of night prowlers to have put a speedy end to the long agony, but we could not be sure.

Prowlers, made bold by the long silence in the nunnery, came and went under the very walls of the compound.

Of these the first sounded, shrill with alarm, as Duchemin turned the corner where the prowlers had gone from sight.

Now from the shelter of the café canopy Lanyard and Athenais Reneaux looked out upon a pave like a river of jet ribboned with gently glowing lights and running between the low banks of sidewalks no less black: both deserted but for a few belated prowlers lurching homeward through the drizzle, and a rank of private cars waiting near the entrance.

And Mooka remembered with a bright laugh the two unruly pigs that had been taken inland as a hostage to famine, and that must be carefully guarded from the teeth of hungry prowlers, for they would soon be needed to keep the children themselves from starving.

Thinking of all these things, Mooka forgot her fears of the white wolves, remembering with a kind of sympathy how hungry all these shy prowlers must be to leave their own haunts, whence the rabbits and seals had vanished, and venture boldly into the yards of men.

Owl and hawk, fox and weasel and wildcat,all the prowlers of the day and night have long since discovered these good hunting-grounds and leave the prints of wing and claw over the records of the wood-mice; but still Tookhees returns, led by his love of the snow-fields, and thrives and multiplies spite of all his enemies.

Such a good hunting-ground cannot long remain hidden from other prowlers in the wilderness; and Wayeeses, who was keeping his discovery to himself, would soon cross the trail of a certain old fox returning day after day to the same good covers.

Every morning now a confused circle of tracks in the snow showed where the wild prowlers of the woods had come and sniffed at the very doors of the tilts in their ravening hunger.

There are many prowlers everywhere.

You may argue that those three night-prowlers might have shot Ticknor and his wife and Grim through the window while we aired our superior virtue.

We'll soon have a cheery blaze started that will keep the prowlers away, I guess.

"If one of the prowlers tries to drag me off, remember I've got my leg tied to this stake I knocked into the ground.

The distance was so great that we had often thought, if prowlers were to come around at night, how impossible it would be to hear them.

They are most part bashful, suspicious, solitary, &c., therefore no such ambitious, impudent intruders as some are, no sharkers, no cony-catchers, no prowlers, no smell-feasts, praters, panders, parasites, bawds, drunkards, whoremasters; necessity and defect compel them to be honest; as Mitio told Demea in the [4072]comedy, "Haec si neque ego neque tu fecimus, Non sinit egestas facere nos.

We heard wolf yelps and owl hoots in the distance, but were not approached by prowlers of any kind.

We read the signs of the day in the dawn tints; watched the coyotes and other night prowlers slink back to their lairs; saw where the various birds went to housekeeping, and how they cared for their young; knew them also by their call and song.

Then I burst out laughing, to the astonishment and encouragement of a group of night prowlers.

But though they imagined several times they heard the purr of one of the prowlers, they reached the plateau without adventure.

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