All this I will bear, and will still respect your integrity, and confide in your principles; but I can no longer sustain a suspense that preys upon my spirits.
The reason of this curious proceeding is that the Monedula preys largely on stinging flies, having learnt from experience that the stinging fly will generally neglect its own safety when it has once fastened on a good spot to draw blood from.
Thus the peregrine falcon lays itself out to catch ducks and naturally goes with them to their breeding grounds, just as the hawker of cheap wares, who preys upon the mem-sahib, follows her to the hills in the summer.
The sharp-shinned hawk rarely attacks full-grown poultry, but preys heavily on young chickens and song birds.
Not that this yere public inattention preys on Boggs.
It preys upon the Puffins, Rock Doves, and Guillemots that make the Bass their summer home, and we earnestly hope that it may long continue to frequent this noble pile of rock.
Thus, that of "Night-hawk" brings the bird into evil repute with gamekeepers, and it is shot down in many localities under the firm belief that it preys upon young Pheasants and Partridges!
The Red Grouse, it is true, is sedentary, but no raptorial bird frequents the moors that preys exclusively upon that species, and it chiefly suffers during the breeding season when the young chicks and poults are about.
The Xenopeltis preys chiefly on small mammalia, which it hunts for in their subterranean holes; and in some respects it approximates the Pythonidae.
It preys habitually on other Snakes, and seems to be more plentiful eastward of the Bay of Bengal than it is in India.
Ichneumon thatpreys upon the aphidivorous flies does not jump, and is figured by De Geer 605.
Fire only preys upon the moisture, which is its natural nourishment.
Therefore, when we are fasting, the heat first of all forces the moisture out of the relics of the nourishment that remain in the body, and then, pursuing the other humid parts, preys upon the natural moisture of the flesh itself.
A low melancholy preys upon me, and I am in the last stage of a consumption.
The Palarus, who preys upon an indefinite number of the Hymenopteron clan, refuses to tell me if she drinks the honey of the Bees, as does the Philanthus, or if she lets the others go without manipulating them to make them disgorge.
The Mantis-killing Tachytes, for instance, preys indiscriminately upon all the Mantides that occur in her neighbourhood.
The fire that in my bosom preys Is like to some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled at his blaze-- A funeral pile.
In such cases, the sufferer sits away listless hours of intense suffering; the mind preys upon itself, and sometimes madness ensues, sometimes suicide is committed.
There is hardly any animal which, for its size, is so much dreaded by the creatures on which it preys as the common Weasel.
It always inhabits the belt of the shore between tide-marks, and preys upon other Molluscs, such as the mussel and periwinkle, literally licking them to pieces with its long riband tongue.
XIX The naked folk of Barca these succeed, Unarmed half, Alarcon led that band, That long in deserts lived, in extreme need, On spoils and preys purchased by strength of hand.
X "Are sheep-cotes burnt, or preys of sheep or kine, The cause why Solyman these bands did arm?
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought.
On the whole the animal world preys upon the vegetable world, and is in a way parasitic upon it.
Excepting the Vultur aura, which preys on the carcases, I saw neither bird, quadruped, reptile, nor insect.
This bloodthirsty insect, which fattens at the expense of the human species, prefers the more delicate skin of women, but preys neither upon epileptic persons, nor upon the dead or dying.
Rancor is that degree of malice which preys upon the possessor.
To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
This life in a capital, where all are so active, myself so objectless, preyson me like a low fever.
All this preys upon his inmost vitals, while perhaps with another, whom he has slandered, he is involved in a quarrel, and it terminates in a settled hatred; and a third case becomes an incurable distemper of rancour and revenge.
He frolicks through the blood, preys upon the vitals, ploughs up the brain, dethrones reason and laughs at the feeble resistance of the best constitution, and finally bears down all opposition before him.
When valour preyson reason, It eats the sword it fights with.
Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
