These tribesmen are mere predatory nomads, with no knowledge of mining, and after burning every village they come across they will vanish into the bush again.
The predatory Wasps killed their prey at first by stabbing it at random, here and there, in the softest parts.
Those predatory insects, working in the open air, are exempt from the difficulties which their emulators, working underground, have to overcome.
Renouncing the chase for ever and becoming an agriculturalist pure and simple, the insect attains a degree of physical and moral prosperity which the predatory species are far from sharing.
What does the Wasp addicted to a predatory life eat, of course in the larval state?
Thus, gradually, was formed the Philanthus of our day; thus was acquired the twofold diet of the various predatoryinsects our contemporaries.
Halicti and other honey-manufacturers, whereas thepredatory insects work in isolation; hence the societies in which the Bee displays her wonderful tendencies, the supreme expression of instinct.
It is highly probable that aggression in man has been far more closely related to the emotion of fear than to any assumed predatory instinct.
This predatory motive, of course, extended to all desired objects, and these objects must have included all objects that could most simply be acquired by stealing.
The aggressive instinct, the herd instinct, the predatory instinct, the social instinct, the migratory instinct, may never have been carried very far in the stock from which man came.
When habitation became fixed and property therefore more individual, probably the predatory impulse itself became relatively a less important factor in combat.
Probably no one now believes that war among modern nations is due to a pure predatory instinct or to a migratory instinct which is supposed to have led primitive hordes to seek new habitats and to prey upon other peoples.
Many attribute pure aggressiveness of a pronounced type or an exaggerated predatory instinct to the Germans.
The objects of predatory raids which produced group combat must have changed with the social life.
Cannibalism may well have been the primitive motive of warfare as serious deadly combat, but all predatory habits must have contributed to establishing a more or less habitual state of warfare among all groups of men.
Nicolai (79) sees the beginning of war in individual predatory acts, involving violence and the need of defense.
Perhaps, however, the name may only signify a large terrestrial biting apterous insect, surpassing the ant in size andpredatory habits.
It was essentially a medieval uprising animated by the religious fanaticism, gross superstition and predatory instincts of a people still in the medieval stage of their development.
These economies are predatory in the sense that they engage in zero-sum games.
The Open Source Movement weakens the classic model of property rights by presenting an alternative, viable, vibrant, model which does not involve over-pricing and anti-competitive predatory practices.
In the month of October the king set out on another predatory excursion, which was destined to be his last.
Many of the French troops and sailors were then absent from the ships, engaged in predatory excursions throughout the country.
Soon after this a truce was made with the English in Normandy; but still the captains of Edward pursued their predatory career in Brittany and Gascony.
But under the present predatory system, where human lives are regarded as mere ciphers and the sole aim is to attain the highest possible profit, a human life is sometimes sacrificed in order that a dollar may be gained.
The general poverty and want from which the French people suffered under the predatory and disgraceful rule of the Bourbon kings, especially affected the women, as is always the case under similar conditions.
Some of the European caves have yielded many wagonloads of the skeletons of these fierce predatory animals, together with the simple weapons of the primitive man.
In remote antiquity limestone caverns afforded a refuge to many species of predatory birds and animals as well as to our earliest ancestors.
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She might have been thirty--perhaps younger, perhaps older, a lean feminine edition of Alexander, with the same intriguing face and veiled predatory look.
The name Poligar was further used for the predatory classes, which served under the chiefs.
The people in Germany too little understood the real motives and object of the French Revolution, and were too soon provoked by the predatory incursions of the French troops, to be infected with revolutionary principles.
The science adapted to such conditions was an economic Darwinism; it embodied the laws of a struggle for existence between competitors of the new and predatory type and those of the peaceable type which formerly possessed the field.
The introduction of the rabbit into Australia, where predatory competitors are absent, has resulted in so great a multiplication of the members of this species that their numbers have become an economic menace.
Predatory competition between unequal parties was the basis of the Ricardian system.
The predatory system, so often the curse of divided India, was in full swing.
To attempt the consolidation of what was still absolutely fluid, to bid the bands of predatory horsemen which constituted the Mahratta army suddenly lay down their lances or turn them into ox goads, would be fatal.
In some of our Western states, a bounty was offered for the scalps of wolves, so as to lessen the number of these predatory foes of sheep.
Both would be thrown away, to form food for the first predatory creature that might chance to light upon them.
Snakes sometimes destroy the young, as related above; squirrels, blue jays, and other predatory mammals and birds rob the nests; and the adults must always be on the alert to escape the many enemies that prey on all small birds.
Prowling mammals, the enemies of ground-nesting birds, and predatory hawks are a danger to the bird.
Like other birds which build on the ground, the black-and-white is subject, during the nesting season, to attacks by snakes and predatory mammals.
One felt that such a woman would listen with some impatience to complaints aboutpredatory fowls, that she would stand no nonsense from her children either, that.
They are the logical outcome of our predatory social system.
Kreophagist and anthropophagist, butcher and amateur butcher, are but different branches of one and the same great predatory stock.
There are carnivorous animals and non-carnivorous, predatory races and sociable races; and the vital question is—to which does man belong?
She read the things that are; Reality unaccepted read For sign of the distraught, and took her blow To brain; herself read through; Wherefore her predatory Glory paid Napoleon ransom knew.
Brave is the Age wherein the word will rust, Which means our soul asleep or body's lust, Until from warmth of many breasts, that beat A temperate common music, sunlike heat The happiness not predatory sheds!
The “nennok,” as the Esquimau terms the Polar Bear, is unusually regarded as a fierce andpredatory animal.
The Opossum,” says Audubon, “is fond of secluding itself during the day, although it by no means confines its predatory rangings to the night.
