aprowl
adjEtymology From a- + prowl.
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Prowling.
- A quick, bold pair, that scampers fair, is part of the saving plan, And a match for the pad Aprowl on the pitiless four, lad!1882, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Little Robin Redbreast”, in Mother Goose for Grown Folks, revised and enlarged edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 158:
- Better to stay behind the frozen gate than to come too early up into the realms where the wolves of cold are still aprowl.1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine”, in Minstrel Weather, New York: Harper, page 7:
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- He was a stranger, and as he sought through the house, he was always aprowl to find some entrance into life, some secret undiscovered door—a stone, a leaf,—that might admit him into light and fellowship.1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: The Modern Library, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 113:
- She was intelligent but not clever; drawn to quack doctors, numerologists, astrologists; she also knew that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln was constantly aprowl in the White House.1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson”, in Virgin Islands, London: André Deutsch, published 1997, page 123: