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But when I see cats prowling on my property, I have no qualms about dousing them with water.
Cowboy traders and dodgy doorstep salesmen are prowling around, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting or the plain gullible.
The little girl was more often to be found prowling around the barns and jumping out of haylofts than sitting inside doing needlework.
The department received numerous complaints over several weeks of a leap of leopards prowling the area.
In this strange attire he performs a stunning solo full of autumnal pride, leonine prowling and swan-like grace.
Soon I was prowling the old family orchard while doing my best to keep the lock shielded from the damp.
Some where in the back of her mind an image flashed, a tiger prowling on a barren landscape.
We were huddled in a shadowy corner so that just in case anyone was prowling around they wouldn't spot us.
The Indians are constantly prowling around trying to steal our horses and kill straggling men.
Initially, the bears come prowling in search of roots, forbs, and berries in the moist riverine bottoms.
There have been a few laughs around the village this week following the Democrat's cover of the colonies of wild feral cats prowling around.
An imposing leather-clad figure whose movements reminded one of a large cat prowling.
Suddenly my ears perked up, like a gazelle being alerted to a lion prowling about.
It also kept the idea of evil as a devilish personal force prowling around ready to get into you.
I thought of him prowling the streets at night, lonely, perhaps even a little drunk, unable to slake his unknown cravings.
However, that doesn't stop us from prowling tradeshow aisles, stuffing our bags full o' swag and filling our local disks with downloads.
Start early and you may surprise little green or great blue herons prowling the shallows.
Schools of mature spawners mass along the beachfront, often prowling within reach of piers and jetties.
Some were junkies, prowling the streets, looking for sweets from their candyman.
The rockers preach rigour, and rail against easy accommodations with the hosts of Midian constantly prowling around.
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It took an hour to recontact the Aurora, presumably because the Aurora was also prowling for them.
Now that the risk is known, I do not think there will be any more prowling in my coverts.
They had been seen prowling about the curtilage of the ale-house the night before.
These flies are continually prowling about and prying into every corner, to find, by stealth, a nidus for their eggs.
It was there in the howl of the scavenging camp dogs, seeking, in their prowling pack, that which the daylight denied them.
Not for a moment did he doubt what was the quarry of this prowling gendarmerie.
The other day, prowling about a bookshop, we came upon two paper-bound copies of a little book of poems by Alice Meynell.
It was Del-phin, very gay, walking on all fours, prowling behind her like a wolf.
In the green radiance he and Gutierrez were like ghouls prowling over me, and their muffled toneless voices, tomblike.
She is not a damsel to take a siesta with a tunisian rover prowling about in her neighborhood.
Julian Jones stiffen, although she kept her gaze fixed balefully upon two mud-hens that were prowling along the lagoon shallows below us.
Ryder, who was prowling about, found her there, and fetched her hartshorn.
Behind him came Meriem and in front, prowling ahead waiting a favorable opportunity, skulked Numa, the lion.
It's barely possible some looter may be prowling in the house.
Whymper once had on the Matterhorn when he was prowling around alone, five thousand feet above the town of Breil.
A Black Panther, meanwhile, was seen prowling about the bungalow.
After the shooting, Orr originally was detained by deputies for prowling and arrested on suspicion of possessing brass knuckles.
That wonderful man, as is always prowling about, unbeknown to any one.
At this time an oil beetle was seen prowling about the holes.
Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and handsomely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom.
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