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1. Attract birds and other creatures that naturally prey on snails and slugs
2. Tachinid Flies: These predators prey on a wide variety of insect species
3. He claws uselessly at the arms of the beast as bright red blood oozes from her lips and the monster begins to retreat over the side of the balustrade with its prey
4. years until Johnny’s mother fell prey to an untimely maternal death, and he
5. Johnny had not a clue, but he knew instantly that he was prey
6. With her prey immobilised, the she-leopard lowered her head to sniff the
7. doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for
8. rippling and strong, lithe and leggy, powerfully quick to the prey
9. A dreamer witch should not be a prey to the forces of fate
10. I could feel the old anger rising again, like a cobra, swaying gently, fixing its prey with a striking eye
11. "Well it does have quite a few photosynthetic cells and can maintain its life in a passive float for years without prey
12. This was the instant of doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for dear sanctuary, but in that instant when Lucy felt that she might regain control of her legs and speed back towards the light of town, the wolf slid the hood from his head
13. The look of him; rippling and strong, lithe and leggy, powerfully quick to the prey
14. of the jungle would smell the blood and know that he was not easy prey
15. At peace for the first time in days, she sat watching the land slowly passing by; ducks dabbled in and out of the reed beds bordering the river and here and there she spotted the long legged herons, poised like statues peering at the water intently as though hypnotising their prey
16. What would the girls do when they found out he hadn't stayed with them? What could they do? They couldn't come miles back looking for him in the dark, they knew better than that, they knew they'd fall prey to something out here
17. A leese wasn't smart enough to pick and choose it's prey, it hears the splashing, it goes to that wallow, as simple as that
18. Less dangerous prey for sure than a hunting camp full of heavily armed humans
19. There's nothing unusual about vultures scouring the land for prey
20. Used for tearing and rending their prey, she guessed
21. I held my breath and looked out to sea, my eyes locked on the prey
22. Weak internal systems can become prey for strong viruses
23. Those prey to them wish to
24. lowlands, and discovered that there was easy-to-catch prey – like
25. feet, wicked talons to catch and hold their prey
26. The multiplex has yet to arrive in North Devon, but the old Odeons and ABC's have fallen prey to the vicissitudes of consumer choice all the same
27. between hunter and prey
28. Unfortunately it is in the nature of some predators, that they will prey upon the weakest and most vulnerable to sate their desperate hunger
29. asleep, Gypsy men were easy prey for the mob, and
30. by the Thane and she was denied her prey
31. He lets the bouncer drop his full weight onto his front foot and as the man lifts his trailing leg to make the final step towards his prey, Alex moves
32. like the janitor was wounded prey
33. shake his prey, and a subtle but distinct change in manner
34. 39“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the
35. eye, that killer look a tiger gives his distant prey
36. John walked around her slowly, circling his prey and devouring it from
37. Realizing he had easier prey, John
38. dubious time with city traffic, they never lost sight of their fleeing prey
39. one-time prey suddenly stood inches in front of him—as predator
40. Every inch of their bodies were hidden within a layer of glistening steel, their heads covered in fanged helms that resembled the gaping maw of a wolf as it tore into its prey
41. He had nearly fallen prey to a hyadune the first time he was lost in an abandoned area, though he didn't know what it was at the time
42. This desire cannot be fulfilled and through failure he grows ever desperate, eventually falling prey to the most absurd forms of hope
43. The carcase is often left to rot upon the ground, or to be devoured by beasts and birds of prey
44. demons huddled over their prey
45. They moved slowly, cautiously, confident that they had finally cornered their victims, but fully aware how dangerous trapped prey could be
46. Vain toils! their impious folly dared to prey
47. To track down prey, the sister had to know the scent of their victim
48. They smelled the soul of their prey
49. To do that, the hellhound would need to immerse themselves in the memories of their prey
50. The hellhounds would relive every action their prey took, they would feel the pain the victims felt, and the scars left behind
1. The quibarta's ancestors preyed on stryders
2. ‘Oh Jesus, help me now,’ Kelvin preyed to himself
3. It seemed like such an insignificant thing, yet it preyed on his mind more than the impending trip to Eludi-4
4. One question, however, preyed on his mind: was the mission at all necessary? TIAR needed an infiltrator
5. This is where the social assistance recipients lived, the disabled, and the mentally ill; as well as those who preyed upon them
6. He'd preyed upon her insecurities and taught her to be pure evil
7. Because of hominid’s small size and the “tooth and talon” marked fossils, this indicated that Man’s Precursor had been more preyed upon than predator for the majority of his existence and that his increasingly enhanced rapid-thinking and social skills had come well before Man’s appearance
8. The state of shock and anger preyed at her mind, as if it were a scavenger in the wild
9. These men preyed on the weaker and generally were just conmen who knew how to lie over and over
10. She genuinely thought she would find a world of interesting and helpful people, instead in recession deep America she was either ignored or preyed upon
11. Preyed on me just like a wolf then played me with the oldest
12. His problem so preyed on his mind he had difficulty in sleeping at night and he
13. For untold generations Thog has preyed on them
14. There were many dragons in the Eastern kingdoms and they preyed on many folk until my ancestor fought the leader of the Horde of Dragons and forced the ban against their killing and burning
15. also have preyed on its lizards, bats, and tiny rodents
16. who preyed on sheep during lambing season
17. He explained it preyed on other birds, and is vehemently territorial
18. They were looters, rapists and murderers who preyed mostly on the weak and the defenseless
19. Instead, they had taken over the slave-market and preyed on passers-by who were looking for a little company
20. of the trees making up the forests of fears that now preyed upon the
21. “I think,” Alicia said, “we were not the only couple preyed upon
22. Morgan, preyed incessantly on his mind
23. The thing that preyed most on his mind
24. With most evil vil ans, you always preyed on
25. happening is supernatural, and thus the humans should not be preyed upon in this situation
26. Several episodes in France recently exposed priests and teachers who’d preyed on young victims for years, fueled by the collections of child pornography found on their computers
27. his eyes and preyed for his heart to calm to preserve whatever oxygen
28. Every time you consented to come here and speak with your God, Marcus has preyed on you and now he’ll drain you dry, taking back the life force you stole without his permission
29. everytime you consented to come here and speak with your God, Marcus has preyed on you and now he'll drain you dry, taking back the life force you stole without his permission
30. homeless out on the streets, veteran and non-veteran alike, and preyed on them either at shelters or on the street
31. ones preyed on these helpless groups for slave labour
32. The gloom preyed further upon him, and his head sagged with fatigue
33. Instead of thinking and acting like the dominant species on the African Veldt, which they were and still are… they became brainless cowards, preyed upon by the predators of the Veldt
34. It was a Garden of Eden for the killers that preyed
35. It was a Land of evil and Terror for the masses of brainless herd animals who were preyed upon: it still is
36. Instead of guarding the prey animals from the predators who preyed upon them, they were driven out of the Garden of the eaten because they had begun to eat the eaten
37. They became victims of their own Gods, who preyed upon them
38. Preyed upon by larger creatures… Why does this description fit the Arabs in Africa today so well? The term: scarab was used by the Egyptians
39. Herd animals have become victims and have been preyed upon for hundreds of millions of years
40. “Thus did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse everyday, and the seditious were still more irritated by the calamities that were under, even while the famine preyed on themselves, after it had preyed upon the people; and indeed the multitude of carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another, was a horrible sight, and produced a pestilential stench which, which was a hindrance to those that would make sallies out of the city and fight the enemy
41. anything preyed upon them? „What would eat a leech,' I asked between heavy puffing
42. She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might once have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor; and, brooding over her sorrows in silence, gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them
43. He also took the bar review course offered by the companies that preyed upon law
44. The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him
45. "I too, as happens to every man once in his life, have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he showed me all the kingdoms of the world, and as he said before, so said he to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' I reflected long, for a gnawing ambition had long preyed upon me, and then I replied, 'Listen,—I have always heard of providence, and yet I have never seen him, or anything that resembles him, or which can make me believe that he exists
46. The loss of the silver preyed on his mind
47. The ever-present menace of lawless negroes and Yankee soldiers preyed on her mind, the danger of terrors to come
48. To impose upon other people was to him a sign of power, a perpetual proof that he had won the right to despise those feeble beings who suffer themselves to be preyed upon in this world
49. Buck multiplied himself, attacking from all sides, enveloping the herd in a whirlwind of menace, cutting out his victim as fast as it could rejoin its mates, wearing out the patience of creatures preyed upon, which is a lesser patience than that of creatures preying
50. Preyed on her
1. A momentary silence preys on the beach
2. this good yeoman of misery preys
3. He goes on to write how the Leftist agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority to divide the people by: (a) creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization, (b) satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation, (c) augmenting primitive feelings of envy, and (d) rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordination him to the will of the Government
4. Have you not heard me? My uncle yet lives and preys on the living!
5. With the qunamic evolution having acquired biological differentiation, there would have come into being male and female plunams that got together to procreate the preys for themselves
6. “A creature that preys on the blood of humans and is more powerful than any mortal man
7. "The devil preys on the weak willed, boy
8. The other gufders saw that one of the preys was wounded sufficiently and switched targets
9. There is a multi-billion dollar industry- in the world which preys on the pockets of an
10. This jungle is filled with wild animals and vampires often roam around in such areas for their preys
11. religious fanaticism are being increasingly infected by religious zeal that preys on the ignorant for perpetuation
12. Then one by one, each beast chose his own preys
13. I gave all the description of my preys
14. I killed all of them like the hungry tigress hunt her preys
15. Similarly, the cat preys, the bird builds its nest in best way and most perfect order, the bee builds the hive firmly and sucks the nectar of flowers, and the baby soon moves his lips for sucking the moment he comes out of his mother’s womb
16. Not been a beast, a horrible man, an animal that preys on young flesh
17. No girl in South Bend will go near him so he preys on the out-of-town…towners
18. Until our commercial culture preys on every new fad, taste, or creative expression and absorbs it so fast that there is no ongoing creative movement or process alive outside of its domain… all so it can duplicate one of them as many times as possible to make as much money as possible
19. Fishing in this area in the afternoon will let you meet your preys as they often feed at this time of the day
20. It has very keen senses that they make use of in tracking down its preys and at the same time protecting itself against the larger predators that normally hunt it
21. "Yes, sir," answered Caderousse; "and remorse preys on me night and day
22. In Shadowfever, she breaks pattern and preys upon Dani, in retaliation against Mac and Barrons for killing the Gray Man, her lover
23. He grew up in a Workhouse, made his Way to London at Fourteen, fell in with the kind of Company that preys upon Country Boys with City Dreams, and found himself, like so many, drunk in a Publick House one Night, and signing his Life away in Exchange for a few Rounds of Ale on Credit
24. “The stock profile for someone who preys on prostitutes is white male, thirty-five to fifty, has been in trouble with the law
25. Let us take the case of a wolf, which preys on various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had from any change in the country increased in numbers, or that other prey had decreased in numbers, during that season of the year when the wolf was hardest pressed for food
26. Look at the Mustela vison of North America, which has webbed feet, and which resembles an otter in its fur, short legs, and form of tail; during summer this animal dives for and preys on fish, but during the long winter it leaves the frozen waters, and preys, like other polecats on mice and land animals
27. She preys on other lives
