carrion-eater

• “Arthygater Katharos said, A crow is ill omened, such a tharais carrion-eater.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildfire

• “The Egyptian Rakham (percnopter), yellow with black-tipped wings; a carrion-eater, now so rare, and the common brown kite, still so common near civilized Cairo, soared in the sky; while the larger vultures, perching upon the rock-ridges, suggested Bedawi sentinels.”

  The Land of Midian

• “Dalamar knew it for the reek of carrion or that of a carrion-eater.”

  Dalamar the Dark

• “Ska fought, but he was no match for even a dying Tarzan, and a moment later the ape-man's teeth closed upon the carrion-eater.”

  Tarzan the Untamed

• “Had he known that the elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered the carcass, he might not have been so keen to partake of the feast, for Tarzan of the Apes was no carrion-eater.”

  Jungle Tales of Tarzan

• “Heredity and environment have made this bird a carrion-eater, hence, like the jackal, the hyena, and the alligator, companion scavengers, it can eat putrid flesh with impunity.”

  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals

• “When it appears unexpectedly, sweeping over a hedge or grove with a rapid flight, it is sometimes mistaken for a more dangerous species; there is then a little flutter of alarm, some birds springing into the air, but in two or three seconds of time they discover their mistake, and settle down quietly again, taking no further notice of the despised carrion-eater.”

  The Naturalist in La Plata

• “And it is beneath such grace and high-bred leisure that Nature hides in her creatures the occupation of scavenger and carrion-eater!”

  Winter Sunshine

• “And here I find a great difficulty in finding words or illustrations that will at all convey the feelings of a high-caste vegetarian at the very idea of drinking after a low-caste carrion-eater.”

  Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore

• “Sa'lab" among the Semites is locally applied to either beast and we can distinguish the two only by the fox being solitary and rapacious, and the jackal gregarious and a carrion-eater.”

  Arabian nights. English

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