The condition of the herd was alarming, not from want of food, but from the hungry prowlers of the night.
While opening the ice, the boys had turned their horses loose among the cattle, and on leading them out of the corral, the trio of prowlers had crept up within a hundred yards.
The Prowlers Heeling under a stiff breeze, the sloop rose joyously to the long Caribbean rollers.
By-the-bye, it may here be mentioned as a contribution towards solving the riddle, “How do these hundred thousand streetprowlers contrive to exist?
We'll soon have a cheery blaze started that will keep theprowlers away, I guess.
If one of the prowlers tries to drag me off, remember I've got my leg tied to this stake I knocked into the ground.
The tackle used by the natives is made of coconut cinnet, four or eight-stranded, of great strength, and capable of holding a fifteen-foot shark should one of these prowlers seize the bait.
This method is always safe where game or meat must be left exposed for a night or two, as the prowlers fear a trap.
Loathsome, bareheaded harlots mingled with bands of prowlersor ran through the crowd, howling obscene refrains.
The tall lamp on the newel post at the foot of the broad stairway gave enough light to show one where to walk; and just then the two prowlers asked for nothing more.
Discretion might have caused them to alarm the camp and in this way cause the prowlers to disappear.
Of these the first sounded, shrill with alarm, as Duchemin turned the corner where the prowlers had gone from sight.
To go away and leave the little home to the elements and the prowlers of the night was like parting forever from some near and dear friend.
We hoped it was not too far out of the running of night prowlers to have put a speedy end to the long agony, but we could not be sure.
He met it as a king should, with no vain effort or trembling, and it was wholly kind to take him so with four of his following rather than that the night prowlers should find him.
The cellar door opened and the two prowlers appeared, carrying two burlap sacks, bulging with what looked like bottles, and so heavy that the two stalwart natives bent under their load.
And more than one of them resolved that when his time came to watch, he would make sure to keep a loaded gun close to his hand, to be used to give the prowlers the fright of their lives.
The dawn was clear despite the grey sky, with only a belt of mist here and there on the lowland to interrupt his watch for the night-prowlers returning to their lair.
These prowlers became a positive trouble; scarcely a day passed but at least one went by; amongst them a big grey fox, whom he had never seen before, but of whom he was to see more than he liked in the terrible winter that followed.
And there were no more runaways and no more night-prowlers on the veranda.
He regretted that he had not waited the night before until the prowlers had entered.
Guelemer held one of those pairs of curved pincers which prowlers call fanchons.
Les sorgueuers vont solliciter des gails a la lune--the prowlers are going to steal horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres.
For three years these strong-armed prowlers have served as the hard-core of local jacqueries; at the present time they form the staff of the universal jacquerie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prowlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
