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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. -- Jean Burden
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... -- Charles Dickens
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle. -- Karel Capek
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. -- D. H. Lawrence
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. -- Tama Janowitz
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover. -- Bruno Tonioli
There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. -- Rick Perry
What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime. -- Allen Tate
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. -- Henry David Thoreau
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. -- George Orwell
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on. -- Herman Melville
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. -- Guy de Maupassant
It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has? -- Tallulah Bankhead
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside. -- Hector Hugh Munro
We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today? -- Henry David Thoreau
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing. -- Larry Ellison
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. -- Charles Dickens
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate... -- Anne Carson
I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating! -- Kate Bush
To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down. -- Gore Vidal
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. -- Michael Dirda
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