He was a marauder evidently waiting to secure a foreigners head, not a regular soldier.
The reason given also explains in positive part why the American marauder is flippantly the most deadly of any of his ilk in the world; and why he constantly mounts in numbers beyond those of any other nation.
Moreover, the movement against the international social marauder will necessarily take on international scope and solidarity.
But all the same there was a feeling troubling Tom which made him determined to thoroughly make sure that no midnight marauder was about, bent upon destroying the piece of optical work which had been made with so much care.
Tom had only been a short time at Furzebrough, but it was long enough to make him know many of the people at sight, and, in spite of the darkness, he fancied that he would be able to recognise the marauder if he could get near enough.
The marauder turned completely over and fell in a wild flutter to the ground, the cock, at the same time, alighting gracefully six or eight feet away and wheeling like a flash to meet a second attack.
Stone dead, the great marauder of the air crashed down through the slim birch-top, with a great scattering of gleams and crystals.
While the boys were conversing about the sly littlemarauder of the chicken-coop and planning its destruction, they were hailed by Walter Stayford.
This was the marauder for which the boy was looking.
The fawn followed, so she increased her pace, hopelessly outdistancing the little creature and leaving it to the mercy of the next marauder that chanced to pass that way.
She had been disconsolate since the loss of her own baby, stolen from her lap by a pitiless eagle and borne away in the sharp talons as the marauder skimmed the level expanse of treetops to its nest on the bleak mountainside.
She leaped high into the air after the marauder with a frantic scream of anguish only to fall back heavily upon the boughs clutching a black feather in her hand.
The last I noticed of this curious scene was this marauder staggering into the night, and calling faintly at intervals, as he realised his loss, "Sacres voleurs!
Then the hole is carefully filled and smoothed over so that no marauder will discover it.
This was a state of affairs that needed mending so we decided to teach the marauder a lesson.
The mounted highwayman, a marauder known to our generation only from books, was to be found on every main road.
Another marauder of the same description, named Biss, was hanged at Salisbury in 1695.
At this moment a door of the farmstead creaked loudly, the light of a lantern flooded the yard, and the baffled marauder sprang over the wall and trotted across the field towards the wood.
The marauder has come with a long leap and gone with a long leap.
Several signs tell the trapper that the marauder is the carcajou or wolverine.
Now if the musk-rat were as wise as the beaver to whom the Indians say he is closely akin, that alarmed marauder would carry the news of the man-intruder to the whole swamp.
He was thinking of the sheer impossibility of any marauder gaining access to No.
He had had a hallucination--that was all, a hallucination due to the fact that a night marauder was walking with a lantern in his hand near the water's edge.
And Farmer Chiquet, beside himself with rage, cuffed and kicked the marauder with all the fury of a plundered peasant as "Bell" lay defenceless before him.
The Marauderclimbed easily now, with no bomb load and nearly empty fuel tanks.
The Marauder was overtaking her enemy as if he were anchored.
His B-26 Marauder had run out of gas near the northern tip of Queensland one night, and its crew had bailed out.
The explosion of a Jap shell just above the hedgehopping Marauder was answered by a two-second burst of Chick’s gun.
But although he spoke hopefully, Tom's inner senses told him that the daring marauderhad done more than merely alarm them.
After this they pushed on in silence, watching as they went the stealthy tracks of the wolverine following, like themselves, the unknown marauder of the night.
Any trader would be glad to buy the black fox skin, and with the proceeds the marauder could easily leave the country, leaving no trace behind him.
Discourses of the Order of the Marauder Brothers Chap.
I had been aroused in time to hear the marauder on the roof with one, and then hear its cry as he carried it to the tree.
A noted marauder was lately buried near Amadia, and three Tyari men passing his grave after nightfall heard awful groans proceeding from it.
He ate all he could, then, seeing no way of burying the remnant without danger of encountering the quills, he reluctantly left it to whatsoever forest marauder might come by.
With its immeasurable superiority in power of sight, the royal marauderhad no trouble in avoiding his enemy's path, so that Red Fox was under surveillance when he least suspected it.
A wandering mink slipped by, and paused to look in hostile wonder at the great white marauder of the north, terrible even in death.
Although a rather dangerous trap to be set at random it is nevertheless often utilized and has brought many a [Page 23] dreaded marauder to his doom.
The pit-fall is still another device by which this lurking marauder is often captured and destroyed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marauder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marauder; plunderer; raider; ravager; ravisher; thief; wrecker
