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All this shows him up for what he is, a particularly vicious form of life that preys on others not to survive but in order to prosper.
The false self is often difficult to argue with, since it has a skill in argument equal to the real or true self on which it preys.
He preys on vulnerable women with money, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief.
There is still a place for vampires in the urban jungles where humanity habitually preys upon itself.
In the chaos, the wasp slips unnoticed through the ant nest and preys on the unguarded caterpillar.
It preys on women's sense of fear and anger, and on men's feelings of guilt and shame.
He preys on people who are easily influenced, such as school leavers who want to be in a girl band.
The damsel bug, preys on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, jassids, caterpillars and moth and butterfly eggs.
Their laughters are mingled with the roaring sound of the mighty waves, which are much too eager to devour their easy preys.
Humans will hunt the cacomistle for its fur and meat, and will kill it when it preys on poultry.
At the beginning of summer the young steinbocks are born and during their first months they are the eagle's favourite preys.
Formica rufa is an aggressive ant species that preys on a range of invertebrate insects as well as collecting honeydew produced by aphids.
A beneficial insect is usually defined by the gardener as one that preys on insects that can damage plants of value to that very same gardener.
They also are in competition for food with the swamp ichneumon, which preys on crabs.
The parrotfish is used as a mobile camouflage screen, hiding the trumpetfish from the small reef fish on which it preys.
But no, its a cleptoparasitic Cuckoo bee, the likes of which preys on mining bees like the one above.
He preys on vulnerable women, and has no problem smacking them around if they give him any grief.
The Cooper's Hawk preys on larger forest and bushland birds of the mid-latitudes: American Robins, jays, and quail.
On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute.
This one is ugly for sure, a resistant-to-almost-everything bacteria that preys on the hospitalized patient.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Canada lynx preys largely upon the American hare, which it is well qualified to hunt.
So you 'll positively not tell me what it is that preys on your mind this morning?
One creature ruthlessly preys on the other, And man, the cleverest, preys on them all.
It is not improbable that the sting was made by a wasp which preys on the cicada.
Little is known of the habits of the clouded leopard, but it preys on small mammals and birds, and rarely comes to the ground.
The sharp-shinned hawk rarely attacks full-grown poultry, but preys heavily on young chickens and song birds.
The king snake is notorious for ophiphagy, and doubtless preys upon the racer at times.
He preys only on the smallest quadrupeds, and with all his voracity he is an arrant poltroon.
Let us yet further imagine that this predacious species is swifter than our animal, on which it preys.
Resentment also preys upon the mind, and occasions the most obstinate disorders, which gradually waste the constitution.
If happiness can be said at any time to be the lot of one on whom a secret sorrow preys, she was happy now.
What the wasting tree is to the water that imbibes its shade, growing thus blacker by what it preys upon, may not the life of the Fay be to the death which engulfs it?
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