beast of prey

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“We may infer from these facts,” Darwin wrote, referring to the lack of fear in birds, “what havoc the introduction of any new beast of prey must cause in a country, before the instincts of the indigenous inhabitants have become adapted to the stranger’s craft or power.”

From Scientific American

“It will cause succeeding generations to regard us as being possessed of the leading characteristics of the savage and the beast of prey — cruelty and greed.”

From Washington Post

Almost overnight, the iconic predator of all paleontology and the Cretaceous Period’s menacing beast of prey became … a waddling buzzard.

From New York Times

His eyes were slightly bloodshot; and the gross, overfed frame suggested the characteristics of a beast of prey who for a long time has ceased to undergo the invigorating activities of the chase and been enabled without effort to gorge at will.

From Project Gutenberg

Or, if one merely noticed the catlike tread, so springy and easy in its muscular power, he might suggest the graceful yet fierce beast of prey who paces through failing sunlight and falling shadows in search of the inoffensive creature that he will surely destroy.

From Project Gutenberg