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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. The Nyobba is a hundred percent carnivore preying mainly on small tentacloids


    2. Humans nurture thongas by preying on their predators and let the thongas grow as thick as they can without stripping the prairie


    3. " Explained Saldon, preying his good fortune that he had remembered to stow his crossbow and Halon's bow in a locker at the back of the boat


    4. Melissa was preying on my mind quite a bit


    5. men, after preying to the Lord, and consulting with Him; and in obedience to His


    6. I think preying on other people is detestable


    7. You can always find a predator or a conman preying on the weaker


    8. And I see now, that he has been feeding on you as well; preying on your fears and devouring your souls, bite by bite! The good doctor is just plain bad blood!”


    9. taking matters into their own hands and preying on others in the hopes that it might bring them


    10. being and turn them into a hyena, preying at the fringe of society? Was

    11. Thus would have developed the need for the plunams for extra reach for preying upon the weaker while themselves keeping away from the stronger


    12. Some examples of insects you want to see in your garden include preying Manti, wasps, and butterflies


    13. The sound of muffled footsteps effected a dramatic change in the preying man


    14. matters are the hoardes of patent and copyright lawyers preying on sick policy


    15. “Lying to us by sending us that phony letter, preying on our emotions like that, especially Diane’s emotions! Having us let Diane come to the school on false pretenses!”


    16. over, preying on her like a hungry carnivore


    17. They painted Bob as a non-conforming degenerate preying on people’s weak minds and trusting hearts


    18. was the human equivalent of a preying mantis: tall, rake-thin, and constantly ready to pounce


    19. But the thought of a vampire preying on her schoolmates was terrifying


    20. mosk, preying on the innocents and naïve

    21. “They’re also little more than pirates, preying on any cargo ship that gets too close,” Rinard said


    22. You do not actually run, as you would have if there was a lion preying on you


    23. They were driven out of the Garden of Eden: A bountiful Garden, filled with millions of vegetarian victims to be hunted down and killed and eaten by preying killers and scavengers


    24. They did not learn the first lesson of Life: that all preying is evil


    25. Fire ended the natural hardships which kept them fit, and alert, it ended the entire organic social structure of the band: it ended the role model of the strongest being protectors of the weakest, it ended the perimeter of the band being defended; it ended their need to fight off preying killers during the night


    26. They sacrificed this loss of general awareness where any preying animal could sneak up on them more easily because the trade-off of being able to make and use tools enabled it to survive better in spite of this perceptual loss


    27. How was status earned 100,000 years ago by the first hunter-gatherers? By hunting and gathering? By learned and earned expertise, experience, and wisdom? By the experience, wisdom and expertise that could help heal a broken bone or an ailing psyche? By leadership? By charisma, or charm, or personality? By prowess with tools? By a built-up knowledge of herbal medicine that could appear magical… and kept secret, so that the medicine man could claim to possess supernatural powers? By cunning, power-hungry individuals preying upon the fears and superstitions of their fellow community members? But then again… this is how status is still gained today


    28. The spread of Christianity became bastardized from a self-help dynamic; into a venal, preying upon gullible, rich converts


    29. The fact that the American armed services only keep their rosters half-filled by preying on the youngest, poorest, high school dropouts is not relevant


    30. like a preying beast in front, blocking his way

    31. period characterized by survivors preying upon and exploiting the remnants of the dead and dying


    32. preying activity of my mind, was books, which I read with great avidity, profiting by the conversation of my host, a man of sound understanding


    33. Palpably he was one of his hangerson but for the matter of that it was merely a question of one preying on his nextdoor neighbour all round, in every deep, so to put it, a deeper depth and for the matter of that if the man in the street chanced to be in the dock himself penal servitude with or without the option of a fine would be a very rara avis altogether


    34. “It’s happened, and Ralph is preying on us, so what are we going to do? The sheriff can’t help us and the earl


    35. They’re preying on the last hopes of suicidal people


    36. You’ve tried “Why didn’t you tell me all this at first instead of preying on my susceptible heart— every trick except that one and I don’t think I could stand it


    37. 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


    38. For all that die from the preying of the Undead become themselves Undead, and prey on their kind


    39. It is that we become as him, that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best


    40. The hedge-fund industry grew up by preying on the inefficiencies created by the mutual-fund mentality of only departing from a benchmark index weighting with reluctance

    41. Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by preying on other animals; but this is a miserable way—as any one who will go to snaring rabbits, or slaughtering lambs, may learn—and he will be regarded as a benefactor of his race who shall teach man to confine himself to a more innocent and wholesome diet


    42. Not only these men, their wives and children, but the entire community around them, all the teachers, actors, cooks, jockeys, live by preying upon the life-blood of the working-people, which in one way or another they absorb like leeches


    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


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