Numbers of attenuated melancholy-looking paddy-birds were stalking solemnly and stiltedly along the bank, also fishing for theirs.
On looking up you are astounded to find some utter stranger standing behind your chair, or stalking solemnly round the room.
He was wonderfully patient in stalking an animal or waiting for its near approach, as he never ventured on a long shot, and did not understand our objection to pot-shooting.
I moved like a snake, dragging my body an inch at a time by firmly grasping with extended hands the tough grass-roots, and writhing forward as noiselessly as if I were stalking some prey.
The old gentleman paid but little attention to the negro until he saw her returning with uplifted hand like a stalking spectre.
He crossed the ditch, then, stalking through the sea rushes like a giant, he reached the cliff.
He might have passed for a spectre of Death itself, stalking through the place of its visitation.
There was no force on earth that he could not have met and scorned in that hour save the invisible spectre stalking at his elbow.
This insect catches its prey by stealthily stalking it until within distance near enough to admit of a sudden dart being successful in effecting capture.
Hutchinson says that he has seen this spider crawling over a looking-glass stalking its own reflection.
John Louder insisted that he was the evil one who had met him at the lake while he was stalking the deer, and had offered him the book to sign.
As these men were stalking a deer I passed along and affrighted the animal, so it ran away, and I was for this accused of being a wizard.
Sounds from beyond indicated that some of the frenzied prisoners had abandoned the chase and were now stalking through the building, killing and looting.
Stalking in with his chin in the air, Mahony found himself in the presence of a man of his own age, who sat absorbed in the study of a document.
John, stalking solemnly and noiselessly in a long black coat, himself led the two women to the bedroom, where he left them; they sat down one on each side of the great fourposter.
And when Richard tried to conciliate Palmerston stalking sulky to the door, or to pet away the melancholy in the rejected Pompey's eyes, Polly had to lay down her sewing and laugh at her husband, so greatly did his behaviour amuse her.
Stalking into the sitting-room he said without preamble: "In my opinion any further delay will mean a risk to my wife.
It had made a poor enough start: at one moment he had been within an ace of picking up his hat and stalking out.
Lake's method of stalking unicorns under the concealment of a woods goat skin had worked well only a few times.
Ever and anon flights of magnificent fireflies flitted across the igarape, revealing the foliage on either side, amid which sometimes it seemed as if gigantic figures were stalking about, to seize us as we passed.
Not another step further would he advance; and he cut us short by turning hastily round and stalking off into the depths of the forest, while we hurried on towards the camp.
The elephant was quietly stalking toward the water, which was about three hundred paces distant from the jungle.
I don't take my horders from you," muttered the girl, stalking back to her kitchen.
You don't know nothin' about it," he retorted, lighting a candle and stalking off to bed.
It was as if she saw Hermann and Michael with bayonet and rifle stalking each other across some land of sand-dunes and hollows, creeping closer to each other, always closer.
Here endeth the first lesson in collie-raising, so far as The Place is concerned," he decreed, stalking back to the ringside to watch the rest of the judging.
No wonder you did not get a shot, gentlemen; there was some one stalking them first.
I pushed my lips close up to Hankin's ear and whispered: "We'll try stalking him.
We are ALL afraid of them," and San Pedro looked around apprehensively, as though he might see one of the giants stalking into the chief's hut at any moment.
One day he was stalking a small beast, like a deer, when, from a tree overhead, a jaguar sprang down at him.
Again he saw monstrous men stalking along--men who towered ten feet or more, and who were big and brawny.
It would be better, thought Ramon, to come upon her unawares, and so he went softly and very slowly, placing each foot as carefully as though he were stalking a wild thing of the woods.
I presume that it also had been stalking the buck and was angry at my appearance on the scene.
They were wicked men indeed, devils stalking the earth in human form, without pity, without shame.
As he spoke, the military preacher abandoned his leafy screen, and stalking forward, stood unexpectedly before the old cavalier, who stared at him, as if he had thought his expressions had actually raised a devil.
Secretary of the Commissioners, stalking out of the room--the rest was lost in shutting the door, or suppressed for fear of offence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
