The stalker begged me not to shoot; he whistled; then turned upon me a face of utter bewilderment, for the stag lay where he was, moving his ears to keep off the midges.
Then the stalker shouted; then he stood upright and shouted again; and still the stag lay where he was; and the man stared at me in silence with consternation in his eyes.
We had had a hard day, without sighting a warrantable stag, when the stalker spied, far on the skyline of the opposite hill, the grandest head he had ever seen.
To be early on the ground is a great advantage, for the chamois’ day is half over at what most people would consider a reasonable breakfast hour, and moreover it usually gives the stalker the two winds, i.
What glorious solos, duets, and trios can the lucky stalker not hear on such occasions, when nought but those weird sounds breaks the great solemn silence of night on the elevated Alpine timber-line regions!
On the other hand, if the stalker is moving down sixty or seventy yards to one side, any slight contretemps does not necessarily spoil his chance of a shot.
But when feeding the stalker has a good chance of examining with his binoculars each individual beast in the herd, he can compare one with another, and mark those with the best heads.
Even should the herd be lying rather scattered about, with their heads facing in all directions, they do not appear to be so keen at detecting the approach of the stalkeras in the morning.
In stalking it is different, as the exertion of crawling and making himself as invisible as possible, a tax both on body and mind, helps to make the stalker forget his ‘jumpiness.
Before commencing a stalk up to dangerous game, the stalker should always put two or three cartridges for his big rifles into his pocket in order to have them handy and to render him perfectly independent of his gun-bearers.
He crept a little farther away, lest a stalker should stumble upon him, and reloaded his rifle.
Here in the end of December General Stalker had already blown up a magazine of the enemy’s ammunition, but had not deemed it necessary to occupy the town, preferring to direct his operations from Bushire.
So soon as the firing ceased, with the lowering of the Persian flag, General Stalker marched the land force into Bushire, and received the formal surrender of the town.
In point of fact, in the morning they were set free, General Stalker deciding that it was useless to retain them prisoners.
By the time he had reached the east veranda, Tryon was gently leading away the unresisting Hayes, and a rose-leaf shoe, visible between two pots of giant croton, guided the stalker to his prey.
She took up a big motor-coat and deer-stalker from the driving-seat and slipped into them.
About two years ago an interesting illustration took place of this, which was witnessed by a neighbour of mine, who found that when stalking a bull bison he had a fellow stalker in the shape of a tiger.
Stalker sets Isaiah and Paul before the preacher as models for his imitation, and descants on this and kindred parts of ministerial work with much force and earnestness, and at the same time with careful sobriety.
Mr. Stalker has broad sympathies and a watchful eye, and speaks in a tone that will commend itself to all his readers.
In darkness the stalker killed two of the Tartars' guards and almost strangled Simon.
The stalker in black seemed to have given up or disappeared.
Just at dusk, Inspectors Wield and Stalker are announced; but we do not undertake to warrant the orthography of any of the names here mentioned.
The ceremonies of reception over, Inspectors Wield and Stalker observe that they have brought some sergeants with them.
Through the filmy screen the stalker saw it all, read the meaning.
Through the meshwork of the blind the stalkercounted them.
The cat-like tread of your primeval aborigine returns even to your civilized boots in the Woods of Westermain, the stalkerand the hunter throbs faintly in your blood.
The primitive instinct of the stalker was again to the fore.
A bitter curse escaped from the lips of the unsuccessful stalker as he spurred out into the open ground.
Cut it, Mrs. Stalker - none of that - we don't want you!
If the stalker were as skilled at moving about in the dark as he seemed to be, he could easily evade Simon.
The stalker had deliberately doused the light, which must mean he could find his victims in the dark.
The stalker would want to kill the Franciscan so Simon could not communicate with the others.
He heard the stalker moving again in the bushes, not fifteen yards away, and the hand on the pistol belt became wet.
Something was stalking something else and undoubtedly the stalker was a man.
Brass dust," Stalker says, cannot be made in England, though it has often been tried.
We have quoted John Stalker at some length as giving interesting sidelights on an industry occupying the attentions of a numerous class in his own day.
And I was told all about that custom of making the stalker a little present on his setting out, for good-luck.
It was an excellent example of the stalker being stalked and had Heller not witnessed the scene we should never have known how the clever old bird had fooled us.
Stalker and company must go by the board as caterers for a very amateur taste.
The Rose had been with Stalker the latter part of the night, and after breakfast had said she would take a stroll to let the fresh air blow sleepiness away.
Stalker is your brother Edwin, whom you haven't seen since you was a small girl, and you thought was dead.
Somewhat surprised at the trapper's readiness to give the information required, and rendered a little suspicious, Stalker asked if he was ready and willing to guide him to the Indian village.
Stalker tripped over him and came violently to the ground on his forehead and nose.
It is probable that the savage chief constituted himself their guard in order to make quite sure of them, for the escape of Stalker weighed heavily on his mind.
A half-smothered laugh from some of the band who did not care much for their chief, rendered Stalker furious.
Otherwise Stalker would arrest you both, as it would be his duty to do.
I should imagine he might be a bit of a bruiser, and it would be a pity to give Stalker an excuse for putting the bracelets on him.
Every hint that was dropped by the crafty plotter with a sportive humour that concealed itself behind a mask of cynical unconcern was accepted and acted upon by Stalker as if it had been a divine revelation.
When Jagger was descending into the road, Stalker stepped forward and swept the light of his bull’s-eye upon him.
Stalker had no qualms of conscience because he was quite certain that he was on the track of a criminal, and that with Inman’s unobtrusive help he would one day lay his hands upon him.
Police Constable Stalker was not numbered with the believers.
I couldn’t hear much, for James talks low; but I got enough to know that Stalker is keeping his eye on you and what can you do when you’re handicapped like that?
From the moment he had set foot in the village on his return from Hull he had done his best to throw suspicion on his rival, and in all his consultations with Stalker he had taken care to keep the suggestion alive.
There was some division of opinion, I repeat, on the question of authorship; but there was none on the market value of Police Constable Stalker as an officer of the law, which it was unanimously agreed could hardly be lower.
He’s got Stalker on his side and they’ve always their heads together.
Before Inman found Stalker he had so rehearsed and perfected his story that all apprehension of evil to himself had been dismissed from his mind, which was possessed with a fierce joy.
But Inman’s thrown him t’ sop, andStalker can see naught wrong in him.
The sharp crack of the rifle passed so quickly that it left little terror behind, the greater cause for alarm was the stalker himself.
I can see them now--the stalker very cool, and the shooter very tired.
By October, when the great red deer were roaring on the high hills, and the stalker had laid his rifle down, roebuck, doe and fawn wore the thicker livery that would be theirs till spring returned.
They went to the wood for their lunch and my cousin, the grey hen, heard the stalker say he thought they had walked twelve miles after that stag.
Below him went the stalker and his master, two hundred yards away and quite invisible.
I was sitting on a heather tuft thinking that now I had lost my parents I should have to join the grouse pack, when I saw the stalker and the man who shoots the stags, crawling along the ground in my direction.
He laid his rifle gently down and took from his pocket the little call given to him by an old deer-stalker of the Austrian highlands.
The royal stag and all his family scattered, the stalker put down his gun and took up his whisky-flask; the man who had shot my parents used language no respectable grouse could listen to without feeling ashamed.
The last stalker had left with October, the monarchs of the herd had long ceased from "belling" and had been forced to the lowlands and the root-crop fields by the stress of severe weather.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
