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Vulture

noun

Any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion.

Someone who attacks in search of booty. Synonyms: marauder, piranha, predator.

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"Vulture" Quotes from Famous Books

... is one of the most noted shepherds in Allgau, and has, moreover, a lofty name, for he is known in the country as "Vulture Damie." Why? Because Damie has destroyed the nests of two dangerous vultures, and thus avenged himself on them for twice having stolen young lambs from him. If it were the custom to dub men knights nowadays, he would be called ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... The Story of the Jackal, Deer, and Crow The Story of the Vulture, the Cat, and the Birds The Story of the Dead Game and the Jackal The Prince and the Wife of the Merchant's Son The Story of the Old Jackal ...

— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... own, the breakfast-room of a sunny and secluded house far uptown, where lived, in an aroma of the domestic virtues, a benevolent-looking old gentleman who combined the attributes of the ferret, the leech, and the vulture in his capacity as editor of that famous weekly publication, The Searchlight. Ives did not sell in that mart; he traded for other information. This time he wanted something about Judge Willis Enderby, for he was far enough ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... am done, I'd have no son Pounce on these treasures like a vulture; Nay, give them half My epitaph And let them share ...

— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field

... seen our advantage. It banked up on a sharp turn, dropped like a stone fully a thousand feet, making a magnificent volplane, and scurried away like a frightened vulture, dropping and dropping in a series of ...

— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor

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