Three weeks before a jailer struck one of the scavengers who had spilt some soup over his new uniform.
The scavengers are mentioned by Stow at the end of his account of each City ward along with other officers.
These great sharks swim about harbors in the tropics, acting as scavengers and occasionally seizing arm or leg of those who venture within their reach.
And after thesescavengers of the East had torn the putrefying flesh and gnawed the multitude of bones, they prowled around the country, with tongues lolling out, in search of water.
Jackals are the night scavengers of Indian cities, and no sooner have the inhabitants retired to rest than their hideous half-bark, half-wailing notes jar upon the ear.
We want scavengers to clear away the superfluous vegetation, and we find them in the periwinkles which we see attached by their foot-stalk to the glass.
Alas, of this discrepancy between the services rendered and the harshness of life there are many other examples outside the world of scavengers and undertakers!
It wanders about the streets of the villages, and may generally be found investigating the heaps of refuse which are left to be cleared away by the animals and birds which constitute the scavengers of the East.
Without the gate it hath also a deputy, common council two, constables four, scavengers four, wardmote inquest seventeen, and a beadle.
So he said, "I ask thee to make me Chief of the Scavengers in the Holy City of Jerusalem, or in.
During the day otherscavengers clear the highways of whatever dust or mud they may have accumulated.
Early in the morning, before daylight, companies of scavengers collect the city refuse in heaps which, some hours afterwards, are carted away into the neighbouring country to fertilise the soil.
Cassala is rich in hyaenas, and the night was passed in the discordant howling of these disgusting but useful animals: they are the scavengers of the country, devouring every species of filth, and clearing all carrion from the earth.
Scavengers are appointed to sweep the carriage-ways, and carry off the dirt; and yet there are places to be found where brooms have not always done their duty.
I was, in fact, trying to emulate the scavengers one sees ladling mud on wet days.
They are, in fact, the scavengers of the establishment, and poke about all day under a curiosity of the turnkey species, and overhaul everything and everybody.
There is reason to believe that the genus Phanaeus, before the introduction of cattle, acted asscavengers to man.
But his celestial spirits talk more insipidly than our scavengers and porters.
Small wonder the great bare-necked scavengers of Nature increase and flourish.
How many more tiers of soaring vultures might yet occupy the regions of unseen space beyond, cannot be told: but the incident serves to illustrate the system on which Nature's great scavengers patrol the land.
They are scavengersand freebooters, being great fighters, as well as predatory in their habits.
Besides serving in no small measure as food for fishes, they are scavengers of the beach, and consume large quantities of waste matter.
All the crustaceans have a similar dietary, being scavengers of the sea; yet fishes find them more acceptable than other animal food, and fishes capable of capturing larger prey subsist largely on the minute entomostracans described elsewhere.
In many parts of the city fecal matter is deposited in boxes or baskets, and these, when filled, are carried on the heads of scavengers to certain designated places and the contents dumped into the sewers.
It may be of interest to note, in passing, that these scavengers seem to be largely immune to the plague and all other infectious diseases.
Not the tenth part of the quickly-multiplying race possess owners; but their utility as scavengers proves their safeguard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scavengers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
