Prowl

(noun.) the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner).

(verb.) move about in or as if in a predatory manner; 'The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town'.

(verb.) loiter about, with no apparent aim.

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• Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If I should prowl about the streets a long time, don't be uneasy; I shall reappear in the morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• They seldom traverse the underworld at night, for then it is that the great banths prowl the dim corridors seeking their prey. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• How I found time to haunt Putney, I am sure I don't know; but I contrived, by some means or other, to prowl about the neighbourhood pretty often. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Who gave you leave to prowl about? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Mr Merdle and his noble guest persisted in prowling about at opposite ends of the perspective. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Many wrecks have been found by these bottom-prowling scouts and valuable material recovered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The winged furies were now prowling gossips who dropped in on each other for tea. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Clayton's first thought was to arrange a sleeping shelter for the night; something which might serve to protect them from prowling beasts of prey. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Wildeve snatched up the lantern and began anxiously prowling among the furze and fern. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The night before, she had reached Datchet; and, prowling about, had found a baker's shop open and deserted. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They prowled about the churches and picture-galleries, much in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And the natural consequence is, as anybody but a baby might have foreseen, that he prowls and wanders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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