"I warn't prowling around, sir, I fell overboard off of the steamboat."
Even the policemen slumbered slyly and there happened to be no prowling thieves abroad.
He had accidentally discovered the red skin rascals as they were prowling about the camp.
It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown-up would be likely to intrude.
It would give him a good view in the morning anyway, besides protecting him from any prowling animals that might chance in that part of the forest.
Bears are dangerous--since our catastrophe--and I shall not be satisfied to have this one prowling about the place much longer without a muzzle on.
In the course of the summer, the French at Three Rivers became aware that a band of Iroquois was prowling in the neighborhood, and sixty men went out to meet them.
It seemed very astonishing that an animal like a wolf should come into the house; but I soon remembered that I had seen no dogs about, so that all kinds of savage, prowling beasts could come in with impunity.
Whilst they had been peeping at the corroboree, and talking, the dingo dogs that had been prowling around the camp, had caught scent of the Kangaroo; and, following the trail, had set up an angry snapping and howling.
Those battle-scarred ramparts were razed to the ground, and humiliating ashes sprinkled over the historic spot, near which a solitary lynx-eyed policeman was seen prowling from time to time during the rest of the winter.