In the shadow of the cliff they were almost invisible as they beganprowling the beach.
Dalgetty could imagine the primitive shudder in Thomas Bancroft, instinct from ages when the night was prowling terror about a tiny circle of fire.
He remembered that night prowling about the "Meteor" over at Wood's Hole, and he remembered how Bouncer had frightened this same man.
Some one must be prowling about here," continued the swarthy one in a whisper just loud enough to reach Tom's ears.
He was certain that Nilkanta had stolen it--for several people said they had seen him prowling about the room the night before.
And only that starving mongrel of Nilkanta's remained prowling along the river-bank, whining and whining as if its heart would break.
From the elevated position on which we stood, I could see that numbers of Russian cavalry were prowling about over the plain, as if watching the movements of the enemy.
I looked round, but I could not see the author of the deed anywhere, though I did not doubt but that he was prowling near, or else the carranchos would already have settled on the carcase.
In fine weather he grazes for an hour or two in the evening, but never strays far from the nest, as Master Reynard, who is always prowling near, would soon make a raid on the eggs.
The cave-tigers tired of their sport, and first one and then the other fell once more to prowling over the littered pavements, with the heavy chains scraping and chinking in their wake.
Romance to him is a dinner jacket prowling by night into the comic opera (American libretto) purlieus of modern Montmartre, with its spurious extravaganzas of rouge and roister, with its spider webs of joy.
An' I'll own that I'm some curious as to why yo're prowling around so early before breakfast.
Meeker slowly lowered his weapon and swore; he did not like the prowling any better than he did the smile and the laugh and the treacherous eyes.
It seems that a hawk took an especial fancy to a weasel that he saw prowling about a farm-yard.
What on earth are youprowling round for, at this time of night?
Winona, strolling on ahead, saw a small gray kittenprowling along the side of the road.
He hasn't any business to let tame geese go prowling around the country that way," growled Billy, "the first day a fellow has leave to go shooting food for the Scouts at home!
I got out of my sleeping-bag, thinking that if any prowling Bosche patrol ventured near I should be able to do something.
The "still" man, who had left me after feeding the villagers, had been prowling around getting pictures.
A fine predicament, I thought, with prowling enemy patrols about and no rifle.
The three men heaped up a pile of stones to protect his remains from the maw of vulture or prowling wolf, and there we may leave him in peace.
Pierre seldom left the basement room at night, but Paul then made many strange excursions, often prowling up and down the Thames.
He saw Pierre Lanier prowling up and down the river, followed by that same assistant.
I wonder how he would feel prowling through a dead man's chamber like a thief, which I shall be if I find papers, and taking them amounts to that; but he would give me no peace till I promised to come.
It was most necessary to have the high fence built about the house to protect the garden from foxes and other prowling creatures, and to keep the wolves and the bears away from the cattle and sheep at night.
A securely fastened door not only protected these supplies from the weather, but also kept off the prowling beasts that might find comfortable living on such food.
Was he beset by skulking savages, or prowling beasts of prey, he rushed to his deadly rifle for protection and relief.
Old Cye was another old darkey in the neighborhood, prowling around.
Small bands of hostile Indians were seen prowling around the house during the night, and by the next morning it was nearly surrounded.
Small squads of Indians were seen prowling about during Monday and Tuesday, but they were promptly scattered by a shell from the howitzer, accurately planted by the veteran artillery sergeant who was in charge of the guns.
Yes, there they are, the prowling thieves, just without the shadow of the wood, dodging along between the blackened stumps of the clearing.
Rival nations too were alert, and ships of the Portuguese and of the English had been found prowling about within the unquestioned limits allowed to Spain by the new treaty line of Tordesillas.
What's that bloody freemason doing, says the citizen, prowling up and down outside?
I'm barricaded up, Simon, with two men prowlingaround the house trying to effect an entrance.
With that rare insight into rare natures which so largely distinguished the sagacious Franklin, the sage well knew that a prowling brave, like Paul Jones, was, like the prowling lion, by nature a solitary warrior.
If discovered then, prowling here in the inmost privacies of a gentleman's abode, what would befall the wanderer, already not unsuspected in the neighborhood of some underhand guilt as a fugitive?
The soldiers you meet prowling on the roads, are not fair specimens of the army.
For five years she waited for her husband's coming and kept the prowling sea wolves away from the treasures collected yearly in her stronghold for shipment to Spain.
The arena for these encounters was a piece of waste land near the school and screened from the eyes of prowling "polismen" by a high bill-posting boarding.
Now there came prowling through the wood that edged the fair domain the gnarled dwarfs that do the will of Shudderwain.
I heard her tell Mom Beck last night she reckoned she'd have to make a batch of little sugah hah't cakes right away, for Mistah Rob would be coming prowling round her cooky jah.
Yet she was sure that some one had been prowlingin there in the night.
You--you can't tell who might come prowling around the place.
She did not know who it was; it was some strange man prowling through the house, hunting for something.
One day prowling about the house in Pen's absence, the Major found a great book full of verses in the lad's study.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prowling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
