The vanity of mind which they cherish destroys everything of a humble, serious, and holy nature, rendering us an easy prey to the temptations which are thrown in our way.
The territory of Tzintzuntzan being now bereft of its chief priests and princes offered an easy prey to its Wanacace neighbors, and several chiefs, probably vassals of the kings of Wayameo, soon began to encroach upon its borders.
Thus they became aneasy prey to the reformers, and perished to a man.
The cray eagerly seizes the bait, and is gently drawn up, and thrown to a distance, when he becomes an easy prey.
Their appetite is as keen as that of the Vulture, and whenever a good opportunity occurs, they gorge themselves to such a degree that they become an easy prey to their enemies the Balacouda and the Bottle-nosed Porpoise.
The Indians, being in a strange country, incapable of speaking any language but their own, and not able to distinguish between the French and the German soldiers, were thought to be easy prey.
If Warsaw could be seized the Russian communications would be cut; a wedge would be thrust in between the northern army and the southern army in Galicia, and, so divided, they would be an easy prey.
Fighting still took place with large bands of rebels on the outskirts, but they were generally so demoralised that they fell an easy prey.
Experts have declared that had Sebastopol been assaulted within two days of the battle of the Alma, it would have fallen an easy prey to the allied armies of France and Britain.
One of their batteries had a deep pit immediately in front covered with bamboo, and sprinkled with earth, in the hope that the Highlanders, in charging the guns, would fall into the trap and become an easy prey.
By day they would be visible for miles to the trained eye of a highwayman, and if pursued would fall an easy prey.
If foes were to spring upon us, you would fall an easy prey at once.
It was true, indeed, that had they been attacked Edward would have fallen an easy prey; but alone in this disguise, hobbling along with the heavy gait of an aged rustic, he would attract no suspicion from any robber band.
The commanding officer was absent, the gates were open and unguarded, and the fortress, strong as it was, became an easy prey to the enemy.
They swept the lake to Skenesborough (now Whitehall), when the American works and the stores that were left became an easy prey to the invaders.
After Erech had opened its doors, the whole of Babylonia to the Persian Gulf fell an easy prey to the conquering hero.
Perhaps it was not his policy to put an end to the war but let it rage until the whole peninsula was exhausted, when it would become an easy prey to his arms.
Their peaceful disposition made them an easy prey to their neighbors who frequently harassed them.
It is from these days that dates that utter prostration of Koryŭ’s power which left her an easy prey to every Japanese freebooter who had 100 good swords at his back.
We learn from Townsend that the Evening Hawfinches are very numerous in the pine forests of Columbia, and so tame as to become an easy prey.
When a flock of these birds is discovered, their capture is accomplished with little difficulty, for they will never desert each other in a moment of danger, so that should one member of the party be taken the rest become an easy prey.
The capture of this species is attended with no difficulty, as its social habits render it an easy prey.
They would probably be unarmed, and should fall an easy prey to the Bahima.
The medicine-man straightened himself, and with something of his former assurance proclaimed that the white man was accountable, and that unless he were expelled or slain the village would fall an easy prey to the enemy.
The Eugenians of Desmond withdrew in disgust from the banner of Donogh O'Brien, because he had openly proclaimed his hostility to the alternate succession, and left his surviving clansmen an easy prey to the enraged Ossorians.
There must have been some predisposition in their constitutions which rendered them an easy prey to this scourge of Europe.
But the Puritan captains were deceived if, as it appears, they fancied the Prince an easy prey.
The newly-arrived soldiers appear to pass their days in alternate trials of hard drinking and of total abstinence, and are continually in a state of nervous fright, which in time must wear them out and make them an easy prey to fever.
They never destroy out of mere wantonness, but have been known to cut the wire and then lie in ambush in the neighborhood, knowing that repairing parties would arrive and fall an easy prey.
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