By and by he met a Vulture, and the Vulture, looking hungrily at the tender morsel before him, said, "Lambikin! Lambikin! I'll EAT YOU!"英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
"They would be about me like vultures if I were weak fool enough to let them," she said to Anne. "They cringe and grovel like spaniels, and flatter till 'tis like to make one sick. 'Tis always so with toadies; they have not the wit to see that their flattery is an insolence, since it supposes adulation so rare that one may be moved by it. The men with empty pockets would marry me, forsooth, and the women be dragged into company clinging to my petticoats. But they are learning. I do not shrink from giving them sharp lessons."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Has she heard that my babe was put out of her reach? Who told her? Woe is me! how utterly undone! MAID I know not, but thus much of their schemes I heard myself; and Menelaus has left the house to fetch him. ANDROMACHE Then am I lost; ah, my child! those vultures twain will take and slay thee; while he who is called thy father lingers still in Delphi. MAID True, for had he been here thou wouldst not have fared so hardly, am sure; but, as it is, thou art friendless.英文原著 · 《Andromache》
There were no wounded here; they had been borne away. But the retreat had been hurried and the vultures and the good Samaritans would have to look to the dead.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
"The same people, not content therewith, nor with the rest of the idols of the heathen, also introduced brute beasts as gods. Some of them worshipped the sheep, some the goat, and others the calf and the hog; while certain of them worshipped the raven, the kite, the vulture, and the eagle. Others again worshipped the crocodile, and some the cat and dog, the wolf and ape, the dragon英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
"I'll get my claws into thee some day, thou foolish lad," she said, lifting her lean vulture-like hand with a threatening gesture.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
These women are supposed to be claire meade's friends, but they're like vultures,fur-wearing vultures.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
The vultures and the hyenas always share the carcass meal.美剧 · 《Billions》
Roberto. what you're considering upstate, the vulture play, know this... everybody's a Libertarian until it's their town that's dying.美剧 · 《Billions》