predative

And as quickly from under the peak of his cap, he had seen her, his swarthy predative face was alert.

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“Good-morning, my ladies and gentlemen,” she said, eyeing the girls from her bold, predative eyes.

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So now, he showed himself at the rectory, and slowly, quietly busied himself at his cart outside the white gate, with that air of silent and forever-unyielding outsideness which gave him his lonely, predative grace.

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