What is "prowlers"

Usage examples of "prowlers".

The prowlers came on, breaking through, but part of them went down and the others were swerved by the fire so that they struck only the outer edge of the area where the Rejects were grouped.

He came back by the place where the prowlers had killed the woman, walking wearily against the pull of gravity.

The prowlers had withdrawn with the coming of full daylight and wood had been carried from the trees to build fires.

The prowlers are the dominant form of life on Ragnarok and I suspect their intelligence is a good deal higher than we would like it to be.

The prowlers and the Hell Fever, the gravity and heat and cold and starvation, will be enough for us to have to fight.

Rejects get started: a thin, quiet man named Henry Anders who had fought well against the prowlers the night before, even though his determination had been greater than his marksmanship.

It had been Craig who had tried to save Irene from the prowlers that morning with only an axe as a weapon.

Half of the prowlers broke through, leaving seven dead guards before them.

It would have to be twelve feet high so the prowlers could not jump over it and, since the prowlers had the sharp claws and climbing ability of cats, its top would have to be surmounted with a row of sharp outward-and-downward projecting stakes.

It was doubtful that the prowlers had a spoken language, but they had some means of communication.

The prowlers were suddenly gone one day, to follow the spring north, and for a week men could walk and work outside the stockade without the protection of armed guards.

Females with pups were seen but always at a great distance as though the prowlers, like humans, took no chances with the lives of their children.

But there were no trees on the plateau, and to be caught by a band of prowlers or unicorns there was certain death for any small party of two or three.

For that reason no small parties had ever gone up on the plateau except when the unicorns and prowlers were gone or nearly so.

The prowlers had long since disappeared into the north and the unicorns were very scarce.