Meaning of night-stalker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal business.
2. A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night; a shadow-stalker.

Examples

“[S]he accordingly proceeded with unrelaxed rapidity, startling the deer who came out into the open⟳ plots to browze, or scaring their lurking enemy the night-stalker, who, with his toils and engines, concealed himself in the adjoining bushes, that he might ensnare and carry⟳ off the fattest of the herd.”

““You can't conceive what he fancies. It seems, according to his account, that you are a night-stalker.””

““Thou wilt have⟳ no need⟳ to bury⟳ me, for if I get⟳ my death he will have⟳ eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear⟳ away my gory corpse, he will taste⟳ me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.””

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