I did not know then that the hyenas would have eaten their lord and patron.
Must I grope about in the dark, and all among the hyenas and lions?
I had made sure that the hyenas would have picked its bones by the time we reached the spot, but, to my joy, there the brute lay, untouched.
And there lurk- ing and crouching in the darkness were the jackals and hyenas of superstition ready to violate his grave.
On moonlight nights they could actually descry the grey-white forms of lions and hyenaspadding noiselessly round the precincts of their boma.
All the Greeks and Syrians followed, and there in the stillness of the desert we laid her in the warm sand, protecting her body from the ravenous hyenas by a few thorns.
As for the vultures, their name was legion, but even they with the help of the hyenas were unable to consume all the bodies.
Around Galabat the hyenas became so bold that they would sneak into the villages almost before the sun was down and drag off the wretched half-dead people.
The scent of the dead bodies brought hyenas everywhere, and they became so bold that they would come almost up to my door.
The bodies of these, not being considered worthy of the rites of sepulture, were dragged into the bush, and left there to become the meals of hyenas and jackals, who speedily would leave nothing visible but the bones to whiten in the sun.
All convulsions and hysterical disorders are attributed to these unfortunate artificers; and they are also supposed to have the power of changing themselves into hyenas and other ravenous beasts.
Africa's sun, the Bedouins, the Jackals, nay even the Hyenas I shall miss.
We lay down in a hollow; the terrible howling of panthers and hyenaswas the song to put us to sleep.
But Hatim, at the entreaties of Stas and Nell, would not consent to this; so they buried her decently and her mound was safeguarded against hyenas with the assistance of stones and thorns.
In the depths glared the blue and red eyes of hyenas and jackals waiting for their turn.
If you should afterwards bury him in the sand, the hyenas will dig him out; the pursuers will find his bones and will know that we did not cross the Nile but made off in this direction.
No, my brave lad, I surely will die and you will cover me well with stones, so that the hyenas cannot dig me out.
Many, many hyenas and jackals entered the ravine to get at the corpses.
The hyenas of the law had gathered him in while he was innocently walking down the railroad track and a low-browed justice of the peace without asking any useless questions had sentenced him to jail for vagrancy.
Sooner or later, by day or by night, these skulking hyenas of the jail-pack would catch him asleep, and he shuddered to think how they might mangle him.
And the voices of the hyenas and other beasts wailing dismally through the forest sounded as the ravenings of ghost animals scenting the blood of those who still lived as men.
Haul They are surrounding us," muttered some of the warriors in their deep voices--their eyes glaring like those of hyenas hungering for blood.
Hyenas filled me with their laughs; death-damps chilled my brow; I prayed not, but blasphemed.
With neither the bears nor the great hyenas did Grôm anticipate any trouble.
Outside the pass the giant jackals, cave-hyenas and other scavengers of the night, howled and scuffled over the carcasses of the slain invaders.
Every night jackals and hyenas used to snarl and fight over the carcases of the oxen, which lay only a few yards from the wagon.
Lions, hyenas and jackals were always to be found.
So Kingozi hardly stirred on his cork mattress, although the lions roared full-voiced satisfaction when they left the rhinoceros, and the yells of the hyenas rose to a pandemonium when at last they were permitted to join the feast.
This part of the work despatched, Omatoko next went down to the place where the carcasses of the koodoos had been carefully protected from vultures and hyenas by a heap of logs laid over them.
The sand is so firm that a horse can be ridden all over it, thereby giving great joy to the hunters of the jackals and hyenas which roam on its barren surface.
The fool friend regards your reputation as common prey for all the vultures, hyenas and jackals.
Why should he give his lambs to the care and keeping of the wolves and hyenas of superstition?
The hyenassaw her also, for her head rose above the rough fence, and being cowardly beasts, slunk away.
Rachel began to dose but was awakened by the laughing cries of the hyenas quite close to her.
The flock of Ethiopia has escaped from the hyenas of the West.
Still no sound but the screaming of the vultures, and snarling of the hyenas and jackals over the eland.
The drivers, flogging like devils, cursing like troopers, and yelling like hyenas gone mad, tried to get the wagon off; but it was fast as a rock.
These catacombs are now inhabited by hyenas and jackals, and had a strong odour of those animals.
Protectively, Si'Wren picked up the oil lamp and stepped forward between the pack of hyenas and her nervously neighing horse.
Nearby, a cluster of hyenaswas already sniffing around, still trying to find the body.
Abruptly she heard a noise, and looked behind her in alarm to see that the pack ofhyenas she had passed while riding in, had already cut off her escape route and was preparing to close in on her.
The few visible remaininghyenas stood at a respectful distance and watched in great agitation, but none demonstrated the slightest tendency to challenge her authority a second time.
At it's approach, the other hyenas broke and ran, the whites of their eyes rolling in maddened fear and squealing their weird frenzied laughter as they scattered mindlessly in all directions.
The hyenas had gone, but they were sure to return after her departure.
A few of the hyenas were already trying to work up their nerve to make the initial charge.
Had there been only one or two of these hideous brutes, an attack from them would have been dangerous enough--far more so than an encounter with hyenas or fierce mastiff dogs, for the mandrill is more than a match for either.
They said the hyenas had exhumed the dead, but a slave was cast out by Banyamwezi, and neither hyenas nor men touched it for seven days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hyenas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
