animal of prey

Instead of wise and confident, the man looked cold, commanding, intimidating, like some regal animal of prey.

The savage, for instance, will recoil before a footprint in the woods, meaningless to the uninstructed, which reveals to him the proximity of an animal of prey; the experienced sailor will notice a little cloud, which tells him of a coming hurricane, with terror, while to the passenger it seems insignificant.

Just listen,' he continued; 'mankind is a sort of animal of prey, which, even when tamed, do not lose their natural propensities; they are worse than beasts of prey, for even the tiger loves its mate and its young, but look, man murders them--murders, do you hear?'

The wild-cat has short intestines and is an animal of prey; the tame cat has long intestines, and betrays her old character only now and then by cunning and slyness.

Mr. Deacon creates a cardboard provocativeness, not much better than a London sex shop, with leather pants that zip down the rear, see-through lace with dog collars, and black mini-sweatshirts that in no way justify the expense of putting a Lesage-embroidered animal of prey on them.