Collectors of a sort

Usage examples of scavengers.

Once they had the carcass divided into large haunches, they moved closer to the stream, leaving most of the bones with bits of meat still clinging to them to the prowling and flying scavengers, but little else.

There were always some scavengers aboard a catch -townless wanderers who roamed the Hunting Ground on foot, scratching up pieces of Old-Tech.

And when I finally get there and find Valentine, come down to strut round the yards just like the scavengers told me he would, what happens?

It was called Strole, and it was home to fifty tough, dust-hardened scavengers who robbed Old-Tech sites when they could find them and scrounged salvage from the leavings of larger towns when they could not.

He was fascinated by old automata and mechanical toys, and he would buy any that passing scavengers brought to him.

They were broken shards of memory, and they had to be carefully collected and pieced together, just like the bits of machinery the scavengers dug up.

She was not nearly as offended by other scavengers, though they often smelled as bad.

The scavengers below were having a feast, even carrion crows were getting a share, and Ayla was delighted.

It smelled fresher on the open meadow, too, and flying scavengers were not the only birds feasting, although other activities seemed more important.

The first stones from her sling only showed the wily scavengers her range, which they stayed just beyond.

Flying scavengers usually meant that whatever had attracted their attention was still alive.

The carnivorous scavengers had attacked an aging fallow deer and dragged the carcass to the cave to finish their meal at leisure and in relative security.

Wolverines were intrepid, scrappy scavengers, fierce enough to drive away predators larger than themselves from their kills, fearless enough to steal drying meat or anything portable they could carry off, and wily enough to break into storage caches.

The wolverine was only the first of the smaller predators and scavengers to fall to her sling.

Fires were built around the rest, partly to keep it from freezing and partly to keep away the inevitable scavengers drawn to the smell of blood and raw meat.