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Stalking   /stˈɔkɪŋ/   Listen
Stalking

noun
1.
A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush.  Synonyms: stalk, still hunt.
2.
The act of following prey stealthily.  Synonym: stalk.



Stalk

verb
(past & past part. stalked; pres. part. stalking)
1.
Walk stiffly.
2.
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.  Synonym: haunt.  "The ghost of her mother haunted her"
3.
Go through (an area) in search of prey.



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"Stalking" Quotes from Famous Books



... time of new arrivals. In that mountain-surrounded retreat they have two twilights—a tenderfoot twilight and a first class twilight. It was the time when scouts, singly and in groups, came in from tracking, stalking and what not, and sprawled about and ...
— Tom Slade's Double Dare • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... but after a time, I voluntarily related to him the mishaps of the afternoon. He laughed heartily, and promised to go with me in the morning and give me a practical lesson in deer-stalking. ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

... usual matter-of-fact rancher; yet beneath that calm was a purpose infinitely more terrible than the animal blaze of a few minutes before, a tenacity more relentless than a tiger on the trail of its quarry, than an Indian stalking his enemy; a formulated purpose which could patiently wait, but eventually and inevitably would grind ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... the years '87, '88, '89, '90, he must have been at a continual disadvantage; and at a disadvantage which he felt keenly, but which he felt, also, that any remarkable piece of Alfierism which would have moved Italy to admiration, such as glaring, or stalking off in silence, or punching a man's head, could only increase. To feel himself at a disadvantage on account of his very virtues, and with people whom those virtues did not impress, must have been most intolerable ...
— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... when this is done and done thoroughly, the Judge has kept all the Forms, Presentment by the Grand-Jury, and Trial by a Petty Jury; but the substance is all gone; the Jury is only a stalking horse, and behind it creeps the Judicial servant of Tyranny, armed with the blunderbuss of law,—made and loaded by himself,—and delivers his shot in the name of law, but against Justice, that purpose of all ...
— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker


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