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Sentences ending with prey

We know how well they are thus concealed; we know that ptarmigans, whilst changing from their winter to their summer plumage, both of which are protective, suffer greatly from birds of prey. [1]
Animals clearly manifest this power, as when a cat watches by a hole and prepares to spring on its prey. [1]
The Indians ransacked the cellar, but missed the prey. [6]
And so along the causeway they came swarming, that wild confusion of frenzied men and horses--and the artillery had to stop firing, of course; consequently the English and Burgundians closed in in safety, the former in front, the latter behind their prey. [5]
No one doubts that the quadrupeds inhabiting snow-clad regions have been rendered white to protect them from their enemies, or to favour their stealing on their prey. [1]
I slept in some of these lean-tos, with my fire going brightly, indifferent to the howl of wolves in chase or the scream of a panther pouncing on its prey. [9]
We transformed the poor creatures into a motionless, miserable mass, and just now they were cleaving the air with their strong wings, proclaiming by proud, glad cries to their families among the reeds their approach with an abundant store of prey. [10]
But it is not an overstock, for they have all India as a prey. [5]
But it has not always wanted a prey. [4]
Caracalla, too, fell mercilessly upon his prey! [10]

Short sentences using prey

They prey upon society. [4]

More example sentences with the word prey in them

Do you know what lies before you, if it should be discovered that you have covered the escape of the prey whom the patriarch already sees in his net? [10]
Birds of prey were attacking his body as it lay upon the ground, and she could not drive them off. [10]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
During 1817 Irving was mostly in the depths of gloom, a prey to the monotony of life and torpidity of intellect. [4]
Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy, arising from causes purely imaginary; she required consolation, and found it in Petrarch. [5]
Her whole being was a prey to a frightful turmoil of feeling. [10]
Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
Hence, as Mr. Wallace remarks, "distastefulness alone would be insufficient to protect a caterpillar unless some outward sign indicated to its would-be destroyer that its prey was a disgusting morsel. [1]
I began to walk up and down, a prey to conflicting impulses. [9]
After generously giving up its prey to the little wife brooding over the eggs, it stood on one leg and gazed thoughtfully down upon the city, whose shining red tiles gleamed spick and span from the green velvet carpet of the meadows. [10]
Nobody was able to stir or speak for a while, so paralyzing was the universal astonishment, so unbelievable the fact that the stake was actually standing there unoccupied and its prey gone. [5]
He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. [5]
It's too risky to attack them by oneself, and if we put it off till another day one of the big guerrilla detachments will snatch the prey from under our noses," thought Denisov, continually peering forward, hoping to see a messenger from Dolokhov. [2]
Since all people think they know them, they are an easy prey to these adventurers. [5]
Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?--death which ends all and must come today or tomorrow--at any rate, in an instant as compared with eternity. [2]
Every portion of the wagon became a prey of its special accident, except that most fragile looking of all its parts, the wheel. [6]
I recognized in the social system of undergraduate life at Harvard a reflection of that of a greater world where I hoped some day to shine; yet my ambition did not prey upon me. [9]
The last of the sacred Nineteen had fallen a prey to the fiendish sack; the town was stripped of the last rag of its ancient glory. [5]
The interests of the persons in her novels supplied the lack of interest in her own life; and Memory and Imagination found their appropriate work, and ceased to prey upon her vitals. [14]
Mr Codlin on the other hand, cursed his fate, and all the hollow things of earth (but Punch especially), and limped along with the theatre on his back, a prey to the bitterest chagrin. [12]
Wildcats might scale the fence, but no coyote could come in to search for prey, and no rabbits or other small game could escape from the valley. [13]
The legend goes that after the Crucifixion his conscience troubled him, and he fled from Jerusalem and wandered about the earth, weary of life and a prey to tortures of the mind. [5]
A pig missing; supposed to have "fallen a prey to the devouring element. [6]
Is it seriously supposable that we will stop to chew it and let our prey escape? [5]
The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
And in this she succeeded so long as it was day; but at night she was a prey to agonizing terrors. [10]
Col. Selby, he said, belonged, gentlemen; to what is called the "upper classes:" It is the privilege of the "upper classes" to prey upon the sons and daughters of the people. [5]
He paced his room, a prey to jealousy and envy and rage, which his calm temperament had kept him from feeling in their intensity up to this miserable hour. [6]
We swarm with reviewers, though we have scarce original works sufficient for them to alight and prey upon, and we closely imitate all the worst tricks of the trade and of the craft in England. [4]
The legate had released him; and when Johanna conducted the faithful fellow to Alexander's bedside, and he saw the youth lying pale and with closed eyes, as though death had claimed him for his prey, the old man dropped on his knees, sobbing loudly. [10]
There is no reason why a professional criminal, who won't change his trade for an honest one, should have intervals of freedom in his prison life in which he is let loose to prey upon society. [4]
Let us surmise, rather, that a decrepit social system in a moment of lowered vitality becomes an easy prey to certain diseases which respectable communities are not supposed to have. [9]
Nor can I quite disbelieve the several accounts which have appeared of their thus paralysing their prey with fear. [1]
These colours are probably beneficial by making this animal known to all birds of prey as a nauseous mouthful. [1]
He and his prey were a proper accent to that mournful place. [5]
The hawks which prey upon doves and hares, the crows and magpies, can thus easily be decimated. [10]
Honora, in the prey of emotions which he had aroused in spite of her, needless to say did not, at that moment, perceive the humour in it. [9]
Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. [1]
Bucklaw stooped to pick up his prey, but a man burst on him from the trees. [11]
A great many people regard growing fruit as lawful prey, who would not think of breaking into your cellar to take it. [4]
Was she awake or was she a prey to some horrid dream? [10]
One flings himself on his prey with a rush like a block of stone hurled from a roof, but the other, without being seen, strikes his poisoned fang into his flesh like an adder hidden in the sand. [10]
When Warwick heard of this he was in a fine temper, you may be sure, for here was his prey threatening to escape again, and all through the over-zeal of this meddling fool. [5]
Hermon's mute nod of assent answered the question, but she exclaimed: "The unhappy woman, who called down the wrath of Nemesis upon you, and who has now herself fallen a prey to the avenging goddess. [10]
We are the natural prey of the conqueror still. [9]
He was once more a prey to the same unendurable dread that had come over him, in his cell, after Klea had left the temple and darkness had closed in. [10]
At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble. [2]
Scarcely had he left that city ere American privateers had slipped out of Charleston harbor to prey upon the commerce of the hated Mistress of the Sea. [9]
It is this knowledge of the individual worth of the reviewer's opinion, which makes the censures of some sink so deep, and prey so heavily upon an author's heart. [14]
Now the foe is down on the victim; he has not spared his weapons, and there lies the prey dumb with pain and ignominy, cursing his own folly.--You seem inclined for silence this evening. [10]
When we arose in the morning we would often see them by the dozens, basking in the shallows, with their wide mouths flapped open waiting for their prey. [9]
I saw him in a sudden flash as a cunning, cruel bird of prey, a gorged, drab vulture with beady eyes, a resemblance so extraordinary that I wondered I had never remarked it before. [9]
The artist closed his sketch-book and retreated, and the stout woman, balked of that prey, turned round a moment to the view, exclaimed, "Ain't that elegant! [4]
For she was his rightful prey, and he meant not to lose one tittle of enjoyment in the progress of the game. [9]
An animal conquers his prey, he is in competition, in constant combat with others of his own kind, and perhaps he brings to bear a certain amount of intelligence in the process. [9]
But what avails his Conquest now he lyes Inter'd in earth a prey for Wormes & Flies? [4]
But Balbilla pushed her vehemently aside, and when the news was brought that Nile had yielded up his prey she rushed on foot to see the body, with the rest of the crowd. [10]
They would thus have been better able to defend themselves with stones or clubs, to attack their prey, or otherwise to obtain food. [1]
When this country had few newspapers it was ten times more the prey of false reports and delusions than it is now. [4]
He had dismounted from his ass during the earlier part of the proceedings, and, not to let his prey escape, he now came between Paula and the bishop, grasped her dress and cried to the chorus of youths: "Come on--at once! [10]
Not another building fell a prey to it on the Nile quay; but a light southerly breeze carried burning fragments to the northwest, and several houses in the poorer quarter on the edge of the desert caught fire. [10]
And a great fear came over me, for our dear father had fallen a prey to that evil. [10]
But the analogy fails, for spiders do not prey upon each other. [4]
Or"--and her large eyes flashed brightly--"or is the blood-hound on the track of his prey? [10]
He has to exercise some degree of sagacity in selecting his prey if he would save himself from getting into trouble. [5]
They are also engaged in the most exciting and adventurous sport--with the exception of aerial warfare ever devised or developed--that of hunting down in all weathers over the wide spaces of the Atlantic those modern sea monsters that prey upon the Allied shipping. [9]
The fire died down upon the stones, and the thought of the Celebrity, alone in a dark cave in the middle of the island, began to prey upon me. [9]
Nor can we doubt that the long train of the peacock and the long tail and wing-feathers of the Argus pheasant must render them an easier prey to any prowling tiger-cat than would otherwise be the case. [1]
My task is done now; my fears have ceased to prey upon me; the sharpness of early sorrows has yielded something of its edge to time. [6]
I can only cover the road very slowly with my little legs, while the hoofs of your horses devour the way-as a crocodile does his prey. [10]
I fancied I could hear the tread of the stealthy brutes following their prey. [4]
While engaged in contending with the priests, thou hast seen with calmness the young might of Persia roll on from the East, consuming the nations on its way, and, like a devouring monster, growing more and more formidable from every fresh prey. [10]
He would have come just the same if his prey had lain in a farmhouse among the hills, or in a tenement-house in C Street. [4]
It was no case of the hunter pursuing his prey with all the craft and subtlety of his trade. [11]
What do I care for the prey? [10]
The specialist has but one fang with which to seize and bold his prey, but that fang is a fearfully long and sharp canine. [6]
From between the broad and hunching shoulders of Chartersea I met such a venomous stare as a cattle-fish might use to freeze his prey. [9]
Whoever shines very brightly and is seen from a distance, is set upon by opponents and envious people, and birds of prey pounce upon the white doves first. [10]
Here am I, bound upon this pillared rock, Prey to the vulture of a vast desire That feeds upon my life. [6]
The Greek's slender body had contracted, her delicate arms and narrow braids of hair changed into spider legs, and the many-jointed hands were already grasping for their prey like a spider, or preparing to wind the murderous threads around another living creature. [10]
I saw no bird of prey, no ill-omened fowl, on my way to the carnival of death, or at the place where it had been held. [6]
Whenever he was between villages he was an easy prey, particularly as he usually traveled by night, to avoid the heat. [5]
But I stood between them and their prey, menaced by a bristling wall of ice-axes and alpenstocks, and proclaimed that there was but one road to this murder, and it was directly over my corpse. [5]
The city was become a mighty graveyard, two-thirds of the population had deserted the place, and only the poor, the aged and the sick, remained behind, a sure prey for the insidious enemy. [5]
It need not be supposed that we were a stupider or an easier prey than our countrymen generally are, for we were not. [5]
Sooner would she be lost forever; body and soul in everlasting perdition, a prey to Satan and hell--in which she believed as firmly as in her own existence. [10]
You can never be absolutely sure of the meaning of anything you read in such circumstances; you are chasing an alert and gamy riddle all the time, and the baffling turns and dodges of the prey make the life of the hunt. [5]
They were up at daybreak, and on their way before sunrise, filled with desire for prey. [11]
The fine gentlemen at Brooks's with whom I had been associating were none too scrupulous, and regarded money-lenders as legitimate prey. [9]
If you are as sensible as you are pretty, you will understand that it is too much to ask any one to stand between the lion and the prey which has roused his ire. [10]
He regarded us as his own legitimate prey, by right of discovery, I think, because he drove off several other professionals who wanted to take stock in us. [5]
The other half are watching for a chance to prey upon you in other ways. [4]
If he cannot and will not form such habits, his place is in confinement, where he cannot prey upon society. [4]
Rolfe drank his, and while they awaited the beefsteak she was silent, the prey of certain misgivings that suddenly assailed her. [9]
Birds of prey, and those only when brought down from the air, would probably be the right game in this place. [10]
Mal is evil, and falconnet--or is it falconnelle?--is a cruel, greedy bird of prey. [10]
Philip himself was a prey to the constant fear that the money would give out before the coal was struck. [5]
The kingdom was a prey to intestine wars; slaughter, fire, and rapine spread ruin throughout the land; cries of distress, horror, and woe rose in every quarter. [5]
The germ of a philosophy evolved in decadent Europe flies across the sea to prey upon a youthful and vigorous America, lodging as host wherever industrial strife has made congenial soil. [9]

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