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  • 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.

    Book   Heart   Mind  
  • 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...

    Writing   Fire   Hair  
  • The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

    Book   Library   World  
    Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.116, Macmillan
  • Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

    Heart   Men   Thinking  
    "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.
  • Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

    Light   Play   Darkness  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
  • Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  • 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.

    Art   Kings   Dad  
  • 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.

    Death   Men   Childhood  
    Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347
  • Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.

  • 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.

    Dream   Escaping   Dozen  
  • Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

    Cat   Shadow   Prowling  
  • How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

    Epic   Artist   Mad  
  • 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.

    Wall   Night   Black  
    Guy de Maupassant, Arnold Kellett (1976). “The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror”, Pan
  • It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

    Nature   Doors   Smell  
    D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.278, Courier Dover Publications
  • 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?

    Needs   Want   Stranger  
    Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • 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.

    Dark   Light   Mind  
    "Nox by Anne Carson" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.
  • I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • 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 (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.85, Xist Publishing
  • Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

    Cat   Animal   Fire  
  • 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 (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library
  • 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.

    Blood   Cells   Long  
    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.49, Macmillan
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Adversity   Cat   Men  
    "The Square Egg". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "The Achievement of the Cat", 1924.
  • Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

    Fall   Kind Deeds   Long  
    Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)
  • Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

    "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".
  • colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

    Stars   School   Dark  
    Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin
  • 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.

    Ideas   House   Stories  
    Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.
  • A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms. But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that.

    Night   Air   Cities  
  • 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.

    Heart   Games   Evil  
    "Craziest Anti-Obama Gun Reactions" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2013.
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