24 Verbs to Use for the Word vultures

Over the silent places of the world flies the vulture of madness, pausing to wheel above isolated farm-houses, where a wife, already dizzy with the pressure of rarefied silence, looks up, magnetized.

So we shall see and hear but few birds round Port of Spain, save the black vultures {87a}Corbeaux, as they call them here; and the black 'tick birds,' {87b} a little larger than our English blackbird, with a long tail and a thick-hooked bill, who perform for the cattle here the same friendly office as is performed by starlings at home.

Down by the swamps one evening we shot a vulture that was assisting a moribund ox to die.

He was very proud of this fact that he was to be consul at an earlier age than it had ever been the lot of any one else, and further that on the first day of the elections, when he had entered the Campus Martius, he saw six vultures, and later while haranguing the soldier twelve others.

Miss Ferber views vultures at trial.

They had caught two vultures, put rings on their necks and let them go, and so knew them again as they hovered over the army.

They were the crows that followed the vultures, and picked the bones of the spoil when their ravening masters had been fully glutted.

It has been a much debated point with sportsmen and naturalists, whether the eye or the sense of smell guides the vulture to his feast of carrion.

The artist was every day more certain, that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince.

"So help me God!" "Did Jerry want me to get Barry?" "Why wouldn't he?" persisted the vulture, twisting his bony hands together in an agony of alarm and suspense.

"Mac," pleaded the vulture who cringed on the floor, "gimme your word you ain't goin' to hold it agin me.

The reporters are preying vultures, rapacious for sensation, and have small respect for anyone.

Much of this he has taken, with all due acknowledgment, from Upham; but he has told the story most pleasantly, in his own way, and these pages will give a better notion of Fenelon, and of the "Eagle" (for eagle read vulture) "of Meaux," old Bossuet, than they are likely to find elsewhere in the same compass.

"Mrs. Ranger, I'm sure you and Del realize that mother and Ross are terribly upset, and not" "They'll realize that you are a cheat, a vulture in the guise of woman!" cried Mrs. Whitney.

Once or twice, large black clouds drove across the opening above them, resembling heavy-winged vultures sailing in the void, preparatory to a swoop upon their prey.

God, indeed, sends the vultures, and, as a matter of fact, these birds do their appointed work much more expeditiously than millions of insects would do if we committed our bodies to the ground.

There were hills in the back ground, which might probably shelter vultures, kites, and the family of quadrupeds that feed upon offal, and much did I desire to mount a high trotting camel, and take a scamper amongst these hillsobliged to content myself with jogging soberly on with my party, I was fain to find amusement in the contemplation of a cavalcade, the like of which will probably not be often seen again.

When the wolf has killed a sheep, he suffers not the vulture to touch it till he has satisfied himself.

"In the towers of green o'erhead Watch the vultures for the dead, And below the egrets red Eye the mossy pools like fates, In the shadowy cypress gates Of the Ocklawaha.

Here, too, were congregated those human vultures that feed and fatten upon the frailties and follies of their fellowmen.

Circular Aviary for Birds of Prey containing a fine griffon vulture, a white-headed North American eagle, hawks, falcons, and owls; among the latter is the great horned owl.

A land where there are no hills; a land where the vultures sail all day without flapping their tip-curled wings; where slimy dragon things watch from the water's edge; where Greek slaves sweat at indigo-vats that draw vultures like carrion; where black men, toiling, sing all day on the sea-islands, plucking cotton-blossoms; where monstrous horrors, hornless and legless, wallow out to the sedge and graze like cattle" "Man!

These, after a battle, drove away the vultures, and tore up the prey, all the while growling and snapping vengefully at each other.

They were sent to feed the vultures of America, and to gratify the Spaniards with an easy conquest.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  vultures