These figures serve to explain how the baronial pigeons, preying on the crops, and so sacred that no man might touch them on pain of life or limb, became one of the chief causes which precipitated the French Revolution.
She kept a continual fast as to the shambles, preyingonly upon herself; and could not but be a very slender gentlewoman, upon so spare a diet.
In the dark and silence of the inner hall, the old enemy swept into her consciousness--again the awful localizations of the preying force!
She appeared not to have got over the loss of her first love,--something seemed preying on her mind always.
All animals undergo different degrees of hybernation, and each in his winter retreat supports vitality by preying upon himself.
These creatures are found inhabiting the waters and the land, and they exist in the intestinal structure of plants and animals, preying upon the nutritive juices which pass through their systems.
There always has been, and always will be in every department and rank of animal life, some or many species that live by preying on their neighbors; and every living thing, from monad to man, has to fear such enemies.
It is a ground-runner, preying on rodents and birds.
Every one of the fourteen thousand hatched and unhatched birds, thus sacrificed to puerile vanity and ignorant prejudice, would have saved his bushel of wheat by preying upon insects that destroy the grain.
That is about the last thing I would think of preying on, but a man must eat something.
How delightful any occupation that keeps the mind from preying on itself.
Here is a bloodthirsty little miscreant that lives by reversing the natural order of higher forms of life preying upon lower ones, an anomaly in that the vegetable actually eats the animal!
With hordes of little parasites constantly preying on its juices, is it any wonder the vine is often too enfeebled to produce seed, or that the leaves lose part of their color and become, as we say, variegated?
We require more police to watch those who are at large andpreying on society.
Wolves, in the arctic regions, often venture upon the ice near the shore, for the purpose of preying upon young seals which they surprise when asleep.
They have leaders, who direct their motions in preying on the labours of man in fertile regions.
Why, man, the whole of Nature is one groan, one continuous preying of creature on creature.
And I--I try to prey on nobody, but perhaps this law of preying will some day be brought home to me.
I know," said Matt, with caressing sympathy; and his head swam in the sudden desire to take her in his arms, and shelter her from that shame and sorrow preying upon her.
I think it's the uncertainty that's preyingupon Miss Northwick.
These creatures died as they had lived, preying one upon the other!
When I first noticed it, I fancied that it had been after the rabbit; and, seeing the latter pounced upon by anotherpreying creature, had uttered its scream at being thus disappointed of its prey.
The fox, and dog, as well as many other preying creatures, have the same habit.
These, in their turn, become the food and subsistence ofpreying creatures.
Meanwhile he had the little brush houses over the bones tightly sealed to keep out preying animals and curious Indians.
Negotiations for peace were opened, and they were content to reap the fruit of the great battles in preying on Dutch trade.
Throughout all past time there has been a perpetual preying of the superior upon the inferior--a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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