Every base lust a tiger unchained—a worm undying, let loose to prey on soul and body.
These keep their claws in the sheath, and never put them out unless they are on the back of their preyor their enemy.
You might have seen assemblages of men who, with weapons in their hands, defended the small spots that remained to them against lions, wolves and beasts of prey who sought safety there.
The spider brings forth out of herself the delicate and ingenious web, which makes her a return by the prey it takes.
The proof that they can see is that they prowl for prey at night and sleep by day, as nocturnal birds do also.
This lives on air, and there it is the prey of all the birds; so in order to be safer it flies above the clouds and finds an air so rarefied that it cannot support the bird that follows it.
Then many of the men who will remain alive, will throw the victuals they have preserved out of their houses, a free prey to the birds and beasts of the earth, without taking any care of them at all.
Sentenced to remain forever an inferior race, this struggle to conquer independence would have proved futile, and sooner or later, they would fall the prey of superior people.
But nothing could be done as long as American ships and sailors, "at least twenty thousand men", were on the seas, an easy prey to British vessels in case war should be declared at once.
In addition he was fully aware that the new republics would be in no condition to fight off foreign aggressors and thus would become an easy prey for the unscrupulous and greedy nations of Europe.
Old age lays hold on youth by the ears, as the old cat seizes on the mouse, and devours its preyafter sporting with it for a long while.
How divinely fair has my husband become, and how very charming are these wood-land scenes; by living long in this place, we must be an easy prey to the God of love.
He found his consolation in lonely retreats, in the caves of mountains and beside their falling waters; where he strayed at large, like the beasts of prey flying from the arrows of huntsmen.
Death will not prey upon the person, which is not vitiated by the poison of anger and enmity, and cavity of whose heart does not foster the dragon of avarice in its darkness, and whose heart is not corroded by the canker of cares.
Their comely persons which are compared with the moon, the lotus flower, and sandal paste for their coolness by fascinated minds; are viewed as indifferently by the wise, as by the insensible beasts which make a prey of them.
All worldly men are as little fishes (shrimps), swimming on the surface of this pool of the earth; while the sly and senile death pounces upon them as a kite, and bears them away as his prey without any respite or remorse.
You have come out too far from your country, to this distant hermitage of mine; as the bird of heaven the great Garuda lighted with his prey of the tortoise, on the farthest mount of the earth.
I am now ill-fated to become a prey to young men, and the subject of fighting among them, like a piece of flesh among ravenous vultures.
As it was in the hostility of the huntsman, that he marked the elephant by his remaining unseen in his hiding place, so thy ignorance which lurks after thee, marks thee for his prey from a distance.
There lived a gigantic vetala in the vast wilderness of the Vindhya mountains, who happened to come out on an excursion to the adjoining districts in search of his prey of human beings.
At these words the old Fleming came out, a prey to evident horror.
That head could tower disdainful, like a noble bird of preywhose cries rend the air, or bow resigned, like the turtle-dove whose voice sheds tenderness in the depths of the silent forest.
Their simplicity and absence of business-like habits have made them a prey to intrigue, fraudulence, and grievous neglect, and an unencumbered and well ordered estate is a rarity among Malabar Brahmans, at least in Travancore.
No human beings can safely remain there, lest they might become prey to these ravenous demons.
His object was to effect the separation of the two parts of the wreck, to disencumber the half which remained firm, to throw overboard what the waves had seized, and thus share the prey with the storm.
They gave the beholder an impression of something weird and spectral: he wondered what prey secured, or what expectation about to be realised, moved with a joyous thrill this magnificent network of living fire.
From prey to prey, says the proverb, we come to the devil.
Like a tiger hungry for prey the Merrimac came back next morning.
The British were so sure of their prey that they kept no watch.
They will fall an easy prey in your hands if it please you to send and take them.
Probably they felt so secure of their prey that they could afford to be moderately cautious in the midst of these fog wreaths that made river travelling somewhat perilous.
On a stormy evening the males and females come out of their nest by millions to couple in the air; then immediately afterwards they fall to the ground and lose their wings, when they become an easyprey to their enemies.
It often penetrates in the middle of the day into our houses, and knocking itself against the window-panes, falls an easy prey to children.
As soon as an insect falls into the hole, it raises its head, and squeezing its prey in the folds of its body, devours it, and afterwards throws out the skin.
This insect often seeks its prey in places where spiders spin their webs.
They eat live insects, seizing their prey as it passes by them.
The eyes of the Carabidae are very prominent, which allows them to see their prey at a great distance.
If any prey passes within their reach, they dart forward, like a spring, a very singular arm, which represents the under lip.
They frequent the alleys of damp woods, where they become the prey of the Libellulae[71] and other carnivorous insects.
The lower ones look into the water and watch for the prey or the fish that advances as an enemy; whilst the upper eyes look upwards towards the air, and warn the insect of the approach of enemies from above.
This irregularity of flight saves the little insect from falling a prey to birds.
Pupa of an Ephemera] In the same family is the genus Cloeon, whose larvae prey on minute insects.
The instrument with which the Notonecta attacks its preyis composed of a very strong and very long conical beak, formed of four joints.
They place their eggs in the carcases of animals, and the larvae prey upon the corrupt flesh, thus quickly ridding the earth of those fatal causes of infection to its inhabitants.
But is it natural, is it possible, that this Sir Ulick O'Shane could so easily part with Harry Ormond, and thus "whistle him down the wind to prey at fortune?
The whole tribe are foul feeders, at best love trash and fatten upon scraps; the worst absolutely rake the kennels, and prey on garbage.
But seeing that they are a prey to their emotions, which far surpass human power or virtue (IV:vi.
For, if all men who are a prey to emotion were all equally proud, they would shrink from nothing, and would fear nothing; how then could they be joined and linked together in bonds of union?
Hence it follows, that man is necessarily always a prey to his passions, that he follows and obeys the general order of nature, and that he accommodates himself thereto, as much as the nature of things demands.
Hence it most clearly follows, that the proud and the dejected specially fall a prey to the emotions.
In so far as men are a prey to passion, they cannot, in that respect, be said to be naturally in harmony.
The way in which this end can be obtained, so that men who are necessarily a prey to their emotions (IV:iv.
Indeed those who are a prey to these emotions may be led much more easily than others to live under the guidance of reason, that is, to become free and to enjoy the life of the blessed.
It would be too long a task to enumerate here all the evil results of pride, inasmuch as the proud are a, prey to all the emotions, though to none of them less than to love and pity.
Note); wherefore men, in so far as they are a prey to their passions, cannot be said to be naturally in harmony.
Yea, many times the dragon attempteth to take away the prey out of the Eagle's talants, both on the ground, and in the ayre, so that there ariseth betwixt them a very hard and dangerous fight.
Illustration] Olaus Magnus says they live in the far Northern mountains, that they prey upon horses and men, and that of their nails drinking-cups were made, as large as ostrich eggs.
For the wolves had heard the gong and the shout of the villagers, and as if determined that their prey should not escape them, they dashed in madly, their eyes flaming, their teeth parted in a snarl.
After she had parted from Ranulph Rookwood, and had watched him disappear beneath the arches of the church porch, her heart sank, and, drawing herself back within the carriage, she became a prey to the most poignant affliction.
He was now a prey to the most frightful apprehensions, agitated in turns by the wildest emotions of rage and terror.
He was a prey to unutterable anguish of soul; his heart bled inwardly for the father he had lost.
Addressing her son in a low tone, she said, "Your prey is within your power.
In the early grey dawn, and in the twilight of evening, I have seen the birds of prey pulling out the eyes of the slain men, or contending for the entrails which the dogs had torn from the rotting bodies.
It was its isolated situation and great distance from a base that made Kalisz the weak point on the Russian frontier, and the German Eagle saw this and swooped on it as a bird of prey on a damless lamb.
Hereward's attitude, and that of a bear waddling off on his hind legs with his preyin his arms.
The dispute is to know whether they shall consider strangers as a prey or a harvest; both opinions are true: we are a prey which every year yields a harvest.
Man then resembled a beast of prey, and when a beast of prey has eaten up a sheep nobody is scandalized thereby.
I never saw efforts more fearful; at times their prey rolled off the stone; then they had to begin over again.
Oh, don't you worry about the girls," he added, as his prey seemed disinclined to leave them.
So that for the first sentence or two her friends were a prey to horror and distress, which turned to indignation on discovering there was nothing in it after all.
This whole day produced on him the effect of a dream, and in order not to believe himself the prey of a nightmare he was obliged to feel in his pockets the cold barrels of the pistols.
Them creatur's prey upon each other like men and animals on the land; one has leaped into the air and fallen hard, back into his own element.
The animal from which he got his name does not glare on his intended prey with more frightful ferocity than his eyes gleamed on the captive, nor was his arm backward in seconding the fierce resentment that almost consumed his breast.
I perceived that the mind of the British population of the province, in Upper Canada especially, was at that time the prey of opposing impulses.
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