aprowl

English

Etymology

a- +‎ prowl

Adjective

aprowl (not comparable)

1. Prowling.
   • 1882, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Little Robin Redbreast”, in Mother Goose for Grown Folks‎^[1], revised and enlarged edition, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, page 158:

     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!

   • 1920, Marian Storm, “A Woodland Valentine”, in Minstrel Weather‎^[2], New York: Harper, page 7:

     Better to stay behind the frozen gate than to come too early up into the realms where the wolves of cold are still aprowl.

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel‎^[3], New York: The Modern Library, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 113:

     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.

   • 1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson”, in Virgin Islands‎^[4], London: André Deutsch, published 1997, page 123:

     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.