单词 | predacious |
例句 | Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She feels shut out by the city’s predacious, moneyed tribes, battered by its “impenetrable shapes” and “fierce elbows.” Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The picture tells the story of a young woman, Danae, who’s been locked in a high tower by her father to keep her away from predacious men. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely. The Hallmarks of Cancer 6: Tissue Invasion and Metastasis 2013-10-30T23:15:03.320Z Bugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Of such a syllogism as the one quoted— No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Few moving things were visible: now and again a taxicab, infrequently a surface-car, here and there, singly, a few prowling women, a scattering of predacious men. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z It is remarkable that in a division of the globe of such colossal proportions there was found no larger quadruped than the kangaroo, and that only man was a predacious animal. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Malarial fevers are relatively few, predacious animals unknown, and insects and reptiles prejudicial to human life or health extraordinarily few in number. Cacao Culture in the Philippines This order is called Orthoptera, from their straight wings; it embraces several groups, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, or locusts, etc., which are all injurious, except the Mantis, which is predacious, and therefore useful. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z Example:— No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z It is of an extremely predacious nature, and feeds on the various species of small worms, and other water animals, that happen to approach. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Otherwise it is not commerce at all, but something predacious outside the law. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The booksellers in the Row always leave room between the wall and the books in their cellars, to allow room for this predacious vermin. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Those warlike and predacious Indians would not keep the peace, nor would they allow other people to do so. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate It is probably because these insects are mostly nocturnal and predacious that they do not present more vivid hues. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Women too I saw in plenty, bold, free, predacious creatures, a rustle of silk and a reek of perfume. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of predacious creatures. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Her father, a ruined man, dwelt in a corner of the family château, a predacious, poaching, athletic, broken scion of royalty, who drank and brawled with the peasants, and married his mistress, a servant-girl. Historical Mysteries "It looks bad, eh—not?" the manager questioned, his predacious eyes fixed greedily upon the trinket. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Mr. Bates also tells us that he never saw them molested by lizards or predacious flies, which often pounce on other butterflies. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Our prices will be predacious, piratical, prohibitive, and profitable. A Woman Named Smith Amid the recurrent dangers incident to a world peopled with moving and predacious forms, two attitudes may be assumed—that of fighting, and that of fleeing or hiding. Sex and Society The man's coffee-brown, hatchet face, his restless, black eyes, the high, narrow shoulders, the slope of nose and chin, combined somehow to give him the look of a wily and predacious wolf. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The policy of Mary of Guise certainly tended to make Scotland a mere province of France, a province infested by French forces, slender, but ill-paid and predacious. John Knox and the Reformation If the cloak be scant—as with the Turk—or frayed by time—as with the Spaniard—we may expect to catch frequent and shocking glimpses of the predacious animal. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 This tribe is predacious, living almost entirely upon animal food; and consists of the seal, dog, cat, weasel, otter, bear, opossum, kangaroo, mole, shrew, and hedgehog genera. 4th. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side But a hunting life cannot last forever; and when large game began to be exhausted, man found himself forced to abandon his destructive and predacious activities, and adopt the settled occupations of woman. Sex and Society The lumber barons wanted their predacious share of the public domain; throughout certain parts of the West and in the South were far-stretching, magnificent forests covered with the growth of centuries. Great Fortunes from Railroads The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Parasites and predacious insects usually keep it in fair control. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered A predacious animal is one that preys upon others. Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side What is the meaning of the word predacious? Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side They are the most formidable predacious mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 |
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